I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.
A world where nothing is had for nothing.
To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be... it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.
I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
I can't write about rich people having relationship problems and breaking up in New York. I don't know that world of Terrence McNally. I knew I had to write people who talk the way I talk. And they talked very different than Terrence McNally.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
If one group of people can exterminate another in the name of so-called religion, the world has no hope.
In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.
One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.
Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
In a perfect world, you make a seamless transition from one great era to the next, but that rarely happens. I've studied these things: how do you go from the Aikman-Irvin-Smith Cowboys to the next era? I'm all for continuity. I wish we could have done it that way with Bill Polian, Jim Caldwell, Peyton.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity.
The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.
I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.
Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.
Playing Karen was so satisfying that it almost cured my acting bug completely. Not that I had conquered the world of acting. It was just that I had something to prove to myself when I started Will & Grace. Now I feel like, okay, well, I've satisfied that.
Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.
Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
