Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.
But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.
Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Fron...
It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.
Because I grew up with women, I have a certain amount of charm, and I'm all right to get on with, kind enough, funny enough, blah blah blah.
I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.
