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My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I’m getting better at it.
I’d really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I’m the action guy.
I’m being a dad and a good husband.
I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Love is a better teacher than duty.
If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in ’86 and she graduated in ’88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.
Flying dreams mean that you’re doing the right thing with your life.
Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain’s success.
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
To have some idea what it’s like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he’s 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.
There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on ‘being more’ rather than simply having more.
It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
I tell you, it’s funny because the only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
It’s not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don’t like it. Girls don’t like you as much. You lose some happiness when that’s all you think about.
Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.
I think we’re all good and bad, but good’s not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
When you’re my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I’d just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.
I’ve never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They’re always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
I thought I was funny as a kid.
I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.
Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!
When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
Never get married in college it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.
Don’t throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they’re completely in love with me.
My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he’s so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.
It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past – or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.
I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.