I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Get-educated-quick schemes are usually about as sound as subprime mortgage-backed securities: Enticing but basically fraudulent.
There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context.
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.
The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
I'm not an equipment nut. I tend to use whatever's to hand. I have several cameras, of course, but I'm not emotional about any of them.
I am unapologetic about the need for social change, greater inclusion, and equity.
I've always said I'm less interested in twists as I am about escalation.
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
Gary Cohn doesn't care about the estate tax, I can guarantee you. I can guarantee you.
Between 2000 and 2010, malaria mortality rates fell by 26 percent around the world. According to the latest World Health Organization estimates, there were about 219 million cases of malaria in 2010 and an estimated 660,000 deaths.
