Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.
There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.
A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'
Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.
People who run environmental groups and things like that, who have to listen to all kinds of nonsense and keep their tempers, are very diplomatic and very inclusive.
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.
If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.
But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.
Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.
I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great... I want to be a part of it.
