'Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?'
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.
So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall.
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting.
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.
'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss.
Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
[from trailer] Minerva McGonagall: Hogwarts is threatened! Man the boundaries. Protect us!
I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.
The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
Octavio: [to his brother Ramiro after being threatened] Being tough won't make you smart.
But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their charter.
Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.
I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.