“The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.”
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“I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?”
“You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.”
“Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.”
“The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.”
“I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.”
“Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.”
“I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships. We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us. Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.”
“Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?”
“I just think that humans were created to look upward”
“I wish I could swap closets with Diana Vreeland, but I think only my left thigh would fit into her clothing.”
“I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.”
“I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.”
“You can reasonably make the intellectual journey from thinking it's permissible to eat shrimp to thinking it's not permissible, or vice versa, whereas our slavery journey was uni-directional. We are as certain we are not going back to that old kind of slavery as we are that we aren't going back to the geocentric universe.”
“You see in the Muslim traditions, it's very clear: maintaining law and consultation, not being arbitrary and oppressive. Consultation. And also in the Muslim tradition, the power comes from within the group. I think that's very important.”
“In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively modern but the reality is an old one. One could with equal justification talk about a Judeo-Islamic tradition or a Christian-Islamic tradition. These three religions are interlinked in many signification ways, which marks them off from the rest of the world. And I think there is a growing awareness of this among Christians and among Jews, and even to some extent to some Muslims. That's happening for obvious reasons.”
“I think the important point which I've been trying to get across is that Islam, from the very beginning, is strongly, clearly opposed to autocratic dictatorial government. The idea which we so often hear expressed in the Western world, that's how they are, that's how they will always be and they can't do anything else.”
“I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more evident now, is that the way we share information among ourselves as American citizens has been radically transformed. The line between news and entertainment has almost dissolved, where ratings now have a big impact on what kinds of stories are covered and not stories.”
“There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.”
“I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.”