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The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

I read the newspaper online. Mostly 'The New York Times.' I'll still buy papers if I'm getting on an airplane or the tour bus, though. I like physical things.

It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

Attack your day with purpose, or your purpose will be serving someone else’s dreams and desires.

I only know how to be me and also become a new version of me each day otherwise what's the point of living life

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.

The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently.

The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.

I sort of don't believe in closure. In the sense that it doesn't make me feel better to think that something is over.

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

And our big theme has been, you have made so much progress, we urge you on with the openings and market openings that have occurred. They clearly work and continuing on that path will produce further growth and further opportunities for the Indian people.

In my wide travels across the world and my meetings with various heads of states, be that Africa or South Asia, Singapore or in high level meetings in the U.S., U.K. or Japan, one common mention is about Dr. Singh's extraordinary reputation as a Wise Man, an outstanding Economist and a fine Gentleman.

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

My favorite thing about horror is that it attracts this great group of nuts, of which I include myself in. I was always kind of an oddball. I collected my fingernails, for instance.

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.