In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.
In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.
To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.
I was 12 when I got a small part in a movie in Texas. And in my spare time, I play with my dogs and write music and go out with my friends.
Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.'
Men and women who sell their birthright for a mess of pottage will tell you that their demise began with something small, with some seemingly insignificant breach of integrity that escalated. The little things do matter. It is not possible to profess...
The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.
I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
Glen Hollander: Sometimes a man has to be big enough to see how small he is.
The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.
The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you most.
Most of the people don't see a big success in life, because small successes ignites ego issues in them.
People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.
I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.
It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
