Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.
If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.
As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.
I resent ever being stereotyped.
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used.
The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.
I'm kind of resistant to being told no, not being wanted. It fills me with energy.
When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.
One of the effects Pixar University has on the culture is that it makes people less self-conscious about their work and gets them comfortable with being publicly reviewed.
The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
Being a part of the 'Hamilton' family has been the most thrilling and rewarding experience of my career.
An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.
Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
There are a lot of human-created systems that we like to tout as being logical that are actually riddled with illogic. And then, on the other hand, we have all these natural systems that are not conscious, but they are logical, and they work really well.
I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.
