I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.
I've decided that the political context is such that the only way reform will finally come about in the Russian military is that the deterioration goes beyond the point to which these old generals can stand up there and resist it.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.
Plurality should not be posited without necessity.
I've never professed to be an intellectual. I don't try to be.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.
It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.
Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.
I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.
People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.
I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.
I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
Die Wissenschaft ist ein Land, welches die Eigenschaft hat, um so mehr Menschen beherbergen zu können, je mehr Bewohner sich darin sammeln; sie ist ein Schatz, der um so grösser wird, je mehr man ihn teilt. Darum kann jeder von uns in seiner Art se...
Listen with an open heart
