It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.
Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
War coverage should be more than a parade of retired generals and retired government flacks posing as reporters.
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.
When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.
For the sake of future generations, we must continue to work together to realise a world without nuclear weapons.
We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.
If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
