I had thought about landing in the Kremlin, but there wasn't enough space.
Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.
I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena.
I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.
One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.
When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
I've always been a big consumer of American journalism over the years and had an interest in the history of it and of the press in America; how it has changed.
I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
The history of fossil-fuel development has always been that certain people are expendable. What's changed is that new, larger populations are now considered expendable.
I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
