France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
That's the difference between working on film and working in a play. In a play, you work on it, and you live in it and develop it and make it happen.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor.
I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest.
I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.
As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.
I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.
Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are the glorifiers of the religious and phi...
Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in a...
A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relati...
She waited with Billy Slick while Carrot went on the errand, and for something to say, she said, ‘Billy Slick doesn’t sound much like a goblin name?’ Billy made a face. ‘Too right! Granny calls me Of the Wind Regretfully Blown. What kind of n...
["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of human beings arises from artlessly trusting somebody...
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, ea...
The winds of the heavens shift suddenly; so does human fate.
What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden?
The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.
Human reason can excuse any evil.
Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.
Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.
