Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.
Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.
Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.
The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.
Real Christianity is based upon God's word given to us through the scriptures, and His word is final.
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.
I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.
I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
I love my little flat in Spitalfields. Lots of actors live out of a suitcase, so it's nice to have a base to come back to.
Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.
My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money
