An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
It's the people who transcend their backgrounds who are interesting to me. I have got a bit of inverted snobbery.
I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.
A president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president.
My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.
In 'Leverage,' I don't really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an insurance investigator.
An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.
An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.
If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
He who pardons easily invites offense.
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
It doesn't bother me one iota that most of my career has been playing people who are not that - well, let's say that people wouldn't aspire to be like them.
I am very proud I was part of the IRA in Derry and involved in repelling the designs of the British state forces against people who were being treated as second- and third-class citizens.
You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'
I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.
