Gadhafi has established no national institutions, not even allowing a fake parliament of the Mubarak or Ben Ali variety that could perhaps be turned into something real.
States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing.
If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.
You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.
Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It's unfortunate.
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.
For every new thing that I buy, I have to throw something out.
Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.
Nick Kyrgios, if you don't want to be a professional tennis player, do something else.
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.
It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.
No one cares about anything until it’s something that goes viral. It’s most certainly frustrating.
Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.
