If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?
People want to see someone who looks like they might have this enviable life, but in turn, they are a mess and their life is a mess.
When you're blocking someone, or when you're running, it's all about putting force into the ground, and that's the epitome of the back squat.
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood's Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and with Willi Smith and with one or two other people, but it just seems like such a hard field to break into. I need someone like Calvin Klein's manager to get behind me!
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Earlier, I thought it would be better for an actress to marry a businessman or a person from other profession, as it offers more stability. But then I realised that if I marry someone who doesn't belong to the same industry , he wouldn't understand my erratic schedules and also the norms of the glamour industry.
I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.
Like with all the Arabs, they use the 'suspect procedure' on me. I arrive four hours before the flight. They do a body search in a back room behind the curtain and then escort me onto the plane because they're afraid that on the way I might pick up a bomb from someone.
Television is ephemeral, a fact that some will find reassuring. But earthlings will continue to pump the kilowatts into the ether. And eventually, when those signals have washed over a few hundred thousand star systems, someone may notice.
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.
You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.
If I didn't have competition and I didn't have people trying to take my spot, then it can make someone lazy. So it does the exact opposite. It motivates me.
To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.
In 2004 I had the fortune - or the misfortune - of playing John Kerry. It was hard because I think the best impressions exaggerate someone's most well-known quality. And exaggerating gravitas is very hard to pull off.
Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!
