With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
Detective Lester Ybarra: Nobody can just up and kill 20 kids, okay? Sanford Clark: We did.
Ellen Griswald: We're not really violent people. This is our first gun. Clark Griswald: No, it isn't.
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.
I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.
I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.
Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.
I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.
My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.
Lt. Gen. George Miller: My loyalty is to the kids. I am a soldier. Karen Clarke: You're not a soldier. Lt. Gen. George Miller: I've been a soldier my whole life! What do you mean I'm not a soldier? I'm a soldier! Look at the uniform - what, do you th...
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.
