Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
I knew trucking was growing. It grew from the Second World War to the time that I bought the bridge. There were interstate highways being built. I thought there was opportunity.
Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.
Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.
My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output.
Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.
I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything.
I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.
I collect candy packaging from around the world and believe it has the value of Pop Art.
I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
I want to impact the world through futuristic yet affordable technologies to make the world a better place.
Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.
A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.
I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.
Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of the great Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel, the most reliable source of pure enchantment in the cable universe.
There's a shortage of perfects breasts in this world. It would be a pity to damage yours.
In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.
At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.
You're going to change the world? Well, go ahead and try. You'll give it up at a certain point and change yourself instead.
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.
I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.
The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have to manage ourselves in the context of time.
Adrian Leon LeBlanc, my dad and my namesake, his keen joy in observing people and the world is the reason I became a journalist.
I think in today's world we've discovered what works, silhouette-wise. A body's a body.
So, through playing with Cop I realized that there is a potentially interested audience out in the world.
If we all take the time to listen and love each other, this world would be a better place.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
You know, at some point there has to be parity. There has to be parity between what is happening in the real world, and what is happening in the public sector world.
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.
