In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
I'm at the National Theatre School, which is like the Juilliard of Canada.
I never thought I'd sing or dance on national television.
American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.
Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is...
The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdo...
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be ...
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.
In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking.
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
My early films were very European based. It was 'As It Is In Heaven,' 'Together,' they were great international successes, but then I did, I think, 60 movies or something.
The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I don't think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.
