Volunteering abroad is a powerful force for change but only if you choose the right project.
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.
Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.
I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.
I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.
Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.
The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
Work to me has become kind of a hobby. I was a part of something that gave me financial independence and the rent is paid. Now it's just about projects that turn me on.
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious bus...
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral...
Hang a German, even if he is a good man.
The open house makes a good man of the thief.
Willing is a good man, but Able is a better one.
There's many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.
I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absolutely amazing and I would love to do a project with him.
