I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
I'd rather see a writer write 15 minutes a day than save it all up for a Saturday. A work gets a coating on it when it's not been worked on for a while, makes it hard to break back in.
There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly condemn Hitler's fascism but won't examine the other reasons why the Third Reich succeeded for a season.
The truth is more important than the facts.
I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, or perhaps later in life, yes when we should say no.
Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.
A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.
They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
For me, it is especially important to maintain my interior life. My spirituality, my connectedness. That is the way I think. That is the way I deal with life and tough moments. I keep in touch with something bigger than me. And I connect with people who have an interior life - a connection with something bigger than them.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
For me, green is more about cycling than recycling.
I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.
It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.
We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.
It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.
