Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.
I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
I am more on the side of humans than robots.
A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.
Billy Collins writes lovely poems. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides.
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.
The United States lost the nuclear-powered submarine Thresher 100 miles east of Cape Cod in 1963, and the submarine Scorpion sank in 1968 in more than 10,000 feet of water 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.
Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.
Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.
For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.
We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
My first film was a big dud at the box office, and my second film did decently. I used to wonder how it would feel to have a hit film. I thought I'd be larger than life, but I'm not feeling anything I imagined. It's a completely different experience.
What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.
When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.
I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I'm making 22 minutes; I know there's a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.
Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica.
The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
