I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.
At the end of the day, dividends are not being paid with margins; dividends are paid with earnings per share.
I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
Being lampooned on 'South Park' is hardly something to complain about. They brought the issue of the dolphin and whale slaughter by the Japanese to a very large audience. I could not really care less how I was portrayed.
The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
Being an environmentalist isn't all about doom and gloom.
It's always dope being able to perform with your girlfriend and get money with your girlfriend.
I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.
When I went on tour with my father, I knew he was a musician. But they were my parents. I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.
I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.
Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.
I'm happy if my music is being downloaded, whether it's legally or illegally.
The big upside to being captain is it's a huge honour, but the downside is that there is definitely extra pressure.
Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.
With 'Downsizing,' a lot of the discussion hasn't been about the film itself, but about cultural and political conversations happening outside of it. It's being digested in the context of the time.
AT&T sucks. There's no excuse for being in downtown Los Angeles, and your phone loses service. That's ridiculous.
