For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested and refreshed with new ideas and perspectives.
There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.
I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.
Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.
As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
I want to create shows which are interesting. I hope that some people are excited by some of the ideas.
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history.
I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.
The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.