The only abyss that exists is the demonic sphere of consciousness created by the erroneous ideas and beliefs of the collective ego.
Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!
Imagine spending seven years at MIT and research laboratories, only to find out that you're a performance artist.
I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.
I know sometimes I can come off like a lonely spinster in a tower. That's not me at all.
I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.
Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.
Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.
I don't watch TV, I don't spend time on the Internet, and I don't party much. I don't text very much, either.
I'm very involved in Shred, constantly checking in on something. It takes a lot of time. But it has let me leverage who I am as an athlete into a product.
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
[last lines] Mary Graham: [upon finding her barely recognizable son] Jamie?... Jamie?... Jamie?
If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from a lottery win.
We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with.
I don't feel that the conductor has real power. The orchestra has the power, and every member of it knows instantaneously if you're just beating time.
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.
