Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
We have held the peculiar notion that a person or society that is a little different from us, whoever we are, is somehow strange or bizarre, to be distrusted or loathed. Think of the negative connotations of words like alien or outlandish. And yet th...
We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet god. Abraham encounter...
The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to...
In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by referring to the primary, genetic difference between the sexes. But of forty-eight chromosomes only ...
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy ...
Professor Lupin: Why do you look so miserable, Harry? Harry: None of it made any difference. Pettigrew escaped. Professor Lupin: Didn't make any difference? Harry, it made all the difference in the world! You helped discover the truth. You saved an i...
I thought Jack's directing job was the best thing about the film.
The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.
Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.
It's totally thrilling to direct.
My maternal grandmother had what might be described in a school report as a 'lively imagination.' She told us that she was a direct descendant of Sir Christopher Wren.
It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
You can't direct without a good crew.
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
But I didn't know much about directing a movie.
I like to direct for the big screen.
I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
ABBA was a direct influence on me.
