When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. We have not seen them able to conduct any kind of organized attack to regain any territory that they've lost. We've seen levels of violence going down.
I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.
Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that.
We have, in this country, this Puritan, hypocritical, nonrealistic view of sex that is entirely different than the view, for instance, in Western Europe.
Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
Sometimes people think that regulating their emotions means trying to act as if they don't have feelings. But, that's not the case. A realistic view of emotions shows that we're capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, but we don't have to be controlled by those emotions.
There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.
Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a cultural heritage based on centuries of common history. And what is more, we share the same values and world view. We believe in a world order that is based on cooperation, on regionalism, on multilateralism.
A world view is probably an expression of self.
You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.
I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.
My kids are wonderfully talented individuals, and their world view is wonderful.
I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.
Americans like to say we're fighting for democracy, and yet young Americans have come to the view that democracy doesn't deliver.
