I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.
Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.
We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.
Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.
On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims.
I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal.
When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.
Raising interest rates is voo-doo. You can't deal with a global system problem by trying to solve it with this.
The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads.
When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.
Boys in bands are more difficult to deal with than one-year-old babies. I've been one of them, and I am one of them, but it is the truth.
Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.
Bipolar disorder is a scary disease, but it is manageable. And I feel blessed that I was able to get the right attention and the right medication to deal with my specific illness.
I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.
Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.
That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.
