Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
The first feature film I did, when I did 'Night Shift,' I improvised quite a bit because I would improvise at the audition, so sometimes I would return to the original lines, and then when I was on set, I would improvise even more.
For shows that are hyper-serialized, it just seems to make more sense to follow a feature film model than follow a television model, which was set up more for a procedural type of show.
I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.
The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
The level of analysis that is done when you see laws created, whether it's the city or state or federal level - it's much more horse-trading than analysis.
I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money... but city and state governments cannot.
President Obama has shelled out more in federal spending than the five presidents that came before him.
I refuse to go along with the status quo of more wasteful federal spending, and I refuse to let the Obama Administration continue to force their misguided ideology through regulatory overreach.
The Congressional Budget Office tells us that Medicare spending has increased fivefold in the past 42 years, dramatically more than all other categories of federal spending.
I don't get nervous anymore. The first couple times I met Roger Federer, or Grigor Dimitrov, I was a little nervous. But now, it's more natural.
There are a lot more roles for men than there are for women. So men get their fee up by sheer quantity of material.
Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am.
In my view, a united Ireland is inevitable, and it is certainly more likely than a voluntary coalition which doesn't include Sinn Fein.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
