True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
One has to view things realistically.
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.
I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?
Wrestling is one of the last truly rebellious American things left.
Trading demands total concentration and the ability to do several things at once while instantly recalling trading prices from the day, or week, before.
Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests a major re-ordering of things. It'll be fascinating to see what happens from now on. It was a genuine break with the recent past - perhaps to re-connect with the past past.
When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also push and have worked a lot on the social issues of rebuilding the family.
The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.
Self-will in the man who does not reckon wisely is by itself the weakest of all things.
One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'
One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.
Many are the things I guess we'd like to go back in time and rectify the things we didn't do right, eh?
