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There was a moment when I was watching Martin Lawrence and Will Smith in 'Badboys' that I felt, you know, inspired. I don't know if I was proud, because so many people do the work. Everyone's part of a team that develops over the years and gives people chances. There have been some good moments watching people develop.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language that has meaning.

Those who have a loving heart and a giving mind are very rich.

I know that I make technical mistakes from time to time. It's one of the aspects of my game that I've been working on for years. I think I've managed to reduce the number of those technical mistakes to a minimum, but occasionally, they happen. On the other hand, I do have moments of technical brilliance.

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

If Satan wasn't around, churches would go out of business.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

I am prepared to talk with anyone. I have no personal grudge toward anybody.

Notionally a left-wing movement, the Anti-Germans were born after the collapse of the Berlin wall. While most Germans rejoiced at the end of the Cold War, the Anti-Germans feared that a united Germany might lead to a fourth Reich - and a return of anti-Semitism.

In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.

The sky is the limit when the universe is involved.

I'm very old-fashioned - I don't operate with an agenda. If you're a biographer, you want to be passionate about what you're doing but dispassionate about how you do it.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.