I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.
The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes - but so do I. I tell a lot of bad jokes.
Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?
'Why are we here?' 'What is our purpose? 'Is there an afterlife?' 'Is there a God?' 'Is it all about science?' Those are big questions, and usually, TV is a little scared to go there.
I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'
Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.
I had a big part of my life in the theater in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's changed, but I love it.
I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.
That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.
I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
