Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view.
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.
Ludacris is a very smart individual. He's about his business. Everything is business with him. So I learned a lot about making deals from him.
Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.
It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.
I was very introverted. You know, I had my close group of friends, but I really didn't care what the cool kids were doing.
I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.
Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.
There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our bills?'
Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.
