I know crowds of people who go to church and the synagogue who aren't religious.
I noticed that people were craving a way of reinterpreting tradition and of being Jewish without joining a synagogue.
There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.
The American people might have a criminal syndicate running their government.
A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning.
I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it.
The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.
There were so many people after that first 'Colbert Report' interview that were impressed by the synergy we had during the interview. People everywhere we'd go would say, 'You should be the bandleader; it would be great for jazz. It would be great for the music.' But I was completely against it.
Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.
I consider personally the election of Barack Hussein Obama to have very great symbolic meaning. A Muslim and a Christian name - so in his name there is a synthesis, although people from time to time want to overlook that, and they do it intentionally.
People shouldn't knock the synthesizer. It's an aid, and it depends on how you use it, just like any other instrument.
Me personally, I have a small circle. Part of that is because sometimes, you meet people, and you can feel the synthetic energy.
The members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria are also part of the Syrian people, and they have the right to exercise their democratic rights.
President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as its support for terrorism, interference in Lebanon, and encouragement of jihadist attacks on Americans in Iraq.
I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.
I can't help but believe that at some time in the not-too-distant future, there is going to be another movement to change these systemic conditions of poverty, injustice, and violence in people's lives. That is where we've got to go, and it is going to be a struggle.
The way you start to break down systemic racism is to start building individual relationships with people who are not like you.
Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.
Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.
We have our religious traditions coming from many thousands of years, and I think to myself, well, you know, if Moses had come down with tablets from the mountain that said, 'And guess what? There are protons and neutrons, and they are made out of quarks,' people wouldn't have understood what he said. So he didn't.
