This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.
Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.
There are conspiracy theorists who think I was crafted in a boardroom. Because I'm so very relatable and so very topical and so very Tumblr.
If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.
Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.
Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before.
Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.
I call it, 'The Kentucky Effect.' Guys from Kentucky are usually drafted higher, and their shoe contracts are worth more. They're in more demand overall because they played here.
People like controversy because that's what sells.
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Jayalalithaa was disqualified from contesting elections because of the Tansi case. I was the complainant. The public prosecutor conducted the case, but I provided all the documents and evidence. She was convicted. She could not contest elections, as her nomination papers were rejected.
I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.
'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.
I'm finally my dad's favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.
I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson roles or Kevin Costner roles, because I'm not going to be good at them.
