But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
I know there are people who are praying for my downfall, but they're going to be like, 'Wow, Xan's actually an artist.'
Even though I am a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan, I've not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.
There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.
You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.
To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
I want to leave a great legacy behind, not just be a quarterback drafted in the first round who doesn't produce.
There are bands like Imagine Dragon, Grouplove, and fun. who have come along and shifted the way that rock can sound.
I can't really define myself as a dramatist or as an actor or as someone who is interested in music.
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
Ronald Reagan, who led the larger New Right project of re-sanctifying U.S. foreign policy after its Vietnam disaccreditation, felt compelled to drape his support for Central American death squads in the rhetoric of American exceptionalism.
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
When I look back on my reading habits when I was really young, I was really drawn to stories about strong girls who in some ways are outsiders.
There's people who I admire like... Dr. Dre, Puff Daddy, Master P, people who built their stuff and are still going.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
