The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
Today we see how utterly mistaken was the Milton Friedman notion that a market system can regulate itself... Everyone understands now, on the contrary, that there can be no solution without government.
Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
My tattoos have become a part of me. When I look in the mirror, I just see my face.
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.
It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.
I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.
Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.
They sent me some tapes of the original Mole and I thought it was pretty intriguing. I'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there. It was fun. Turned out to be good.
You look at the floor and see the floor. I look at the floor and see molecules.
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is for the community of San Francisco. And the Brooklyn Bridge, which is one of the most magnificent bridges ever built, is also a monument to the community, you see.
What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
I see my songs and shows almost like a mosaic - part of a bigger picture.
