I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.
I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it's about becoming a critical thinker. And I think that critical thinking is so integral to being an actor.
I think it's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick, arty fix.
I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.
I went to a very academic school, but I never really quite... I think because not that many people were particular creative or arty, I felt a little bit different.
The thing I always liked about 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' was Pee-wee's, obviously, an oddball, but nobody in that universe points a finger at him and goes, 'Look at the weirdo!' I think that's why weirdo, arty kids like it so much: because it's sort of like a utopia.
I was a closet straight. I think I wanted to be gay because I thought it was arty and interesting. And also, I was phenomenally shy with girls.
As far as talent goes, we had pretty much everything, and I think that's why this year was so successful.
I would never want the fans to think bad of me, to think I just want as much money for myself.
I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.
We have an ascending player in Brian Quick, who, I think, is going to be a very, very solid player for us.
I don't think you can ever tell the story of Ted Turner's involvement in professional wrestling-slash-sports entertainment without devoting several chapters to the rise and continued ascent of Sting.
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think.
Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'
