There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.
I’ve seen a disobedient client simply turn his attention toward The Adversary and ask “Are You still there?” and suddenly all was made well between them.
When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with the special interests. They remember. The people forget.
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.
It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.
I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces.
My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal.
I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.
I particularly recognize that reasonable people can disagree as to what that proper balance or blend is between privacy and security and safety.
I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.
The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.
Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.
The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.
There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.
When people are faced with a choice between the Northern Ireland they have got and the perfect Northern Ireland, they complain. But in the real world that isn't the choice.
