Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
I've spent the better part of my career in politics and public policy working on and fighting for education reforms.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
You'd like people to remember you for these great times on the ice. In reality, you want them to forget because you're doing something new and better.
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?
I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate my game.
After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.
I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.
I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.
You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.
I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and then thinking about it. I was too in my head when I was on stage.
Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
