Since the pharmaceuticals don't make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don't make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising money to turn it into a film. It's a story of a Cuban singer who became the Queen of Latin Soul, the first woman on the N.Y. salsa scene.
The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.
Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists.
We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.
I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
There's the constant concern with what happens to you when you die. Every society thinks about that and makes things to deal with that.
Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.
None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la ...
When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way.
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
La terre nous en apprend plus sur nous que tous les livres. Parce qu'elle nous résiste. L'homme se découvre quand il se mesure avec l'obstacle. (Terre des hommes)
En mi trabajo había aprendido que cuando deseas que alguien te facilite una información y puede negarse a ello, la mejor manera de intentarlo es con una petición algo más que educada.
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.
When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
