I consider myself very fortunate. I mean I think theres that old saying Where theres a will theres a way and I just have such a passion for jazz music and playing the piano that I just find a way to make it work so to speak. Fortunately

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

I have to be fully committed to do a project nowadays because if I say yes to something it means the whole family are going to have to move for the job. Its a lot of upheaval. So it has to be really worth it. Otherwise Id just as well not bother.

I have ice cream every week. Maybe twice. I live for ice cream but not just any ice cream. It has to be locally sourced and usually somewhere I can walk to.

If a poem is each time new then it is necessarily an act of discovery a chance taken a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

Animals play a big part in my life on tour or at home.

Youve got to be picky in this business – if youre not then I dont think you have the option of longevity. Youve got to be choosy and try and do something thats outside of the box and dangerous. I love doing stuff that excites me gives me that adrenalin rush.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

If a literary man puts together two words about music one of them will be wrong.

The worlds entire scientific and cultural heritage published over centuries in books and journals is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

No one wants to hear the truth if it isnt what they want to hear.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war we have to attack that way of life.

This only grant me that my means may lie too low for envy for contempt too high.

Its just this little comedy about this group of guys and their local hangout is a pool hall and its starting to get taken over by this big corporate evil kind of guy. And its just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. Its called Think Tank.

Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

As a little girl I didnt like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

I was a very awkward high schooler especially in early high school.

In New Orleans music is part of the culture. Youre raised with it from the cradle to the grave and all in-between.

When lab safety procedures arent followed people can get hurt or worse. Lab equipment and chemicals that are improperly handled can result in personal injury and even death.

Im the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesnt compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

Whenever I am acting its everything you know. If Im researching a role Im completely consumed in that and between action and cut I live in this suspended time.

Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban where members of my mothers family had settled at the turn of the century and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

Dont call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

I dont like to be me. Im not so comfortable being me on screen because then Id be a presenter. Im not Jimmy Fallon.

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

When youre brown and Indian you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

Im trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job so be it.

I think social media has reinvigorated peoples enthusiasm to be active and to engage.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly he must work with integrity.

Really feminism is just about equality and thats all. Its just saying equal rights.

Bringing together the unique expertise of researchers from both NYU and the Technion will hopefully enable us to overcome some of the most difficult challenges in treating cancer patients.

The great thing about Battlestar was that it was basically Star Wars but once a week as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge Battlestar fan.

Customs form us all our thoughts our morals our most fixed beliefs are consequences of our place of birth.

No matter whats happening in the Middle East – the Arab Spring et cetera the economic challenges high rates of unemployment – the emotional critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

It is ironic that it doesnt matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately my parents marker is Do you have a wife? and Do you have children?

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter somehow for reading it.

If four things are followed – having a great aim acquiring knowledge hard work and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time that is fantastic but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made but nobody goes to watch them.

I always knew I wanted to be a technologist so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor a problem solver so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions but it turns out that you dont.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom not the reflected glamour of fame.

My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning no matter the weather before I go out of the house.

Something Ive noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. Its all positive thinking.

Thank you Hollywood for allowing me to be part of your group.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

God for example appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap holiness was something burning forbidding something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

But I dont know the violence I cant even talk about. We dont do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television breaking a pencil was a violent act.

After the 9/11 incidents Islam has become a big question mark among westerners especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.

I am sure it is ones duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions no tastes no emotions are worth much unless they are ones own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

After building most of Mint.coms prototype by myself I talked to anyone and everyone I knew about Mint. Its counter-intuitive because you might fear someone will steal your idea but its the only way to make connections be sure youre on the right track and provide a solution for an audience broader than yourself.

I dont want to do stories that dont have a heart. Im just not going to be satisfied with stories where I cant be passionate about the subject where I cant make a difference.

We have to prepare our students so that they become able to face any challenge rising in any environment and anywhere in the world.

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful I get to make more films great and the more films that I make and the more interest that Im allowed to cover the better for me and the better hopefully

I try to stay focused on the work and recognize that Ive been very lucky. Maybe its cause I grew up with actors but Ive seen that recognition comes and goes so all there really is is your family and friends. You have to maintain those constants in your life. Maintain whats beyond your work.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much achieve so much and still fail so many people so badly?

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years ideologies in decades and nations in centuries then the unit measuring civilizations born of the interaction among peoples would be the millennium.

I know that people think Im sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. Its wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it it can be a very beautiful thing.

When I was in high school my mom worked at Bed Bath and Beyond so I was always there.

I must tell you I havent done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. Its a hard show to do but I think its going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it its a pretty strong show.

Right now Im doing four shows at a time trying to read four outlines every week four scripts every week and watching four rough cuts its a lot of good work. Its fun to do it but it does wear you out.

My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world you know you have a lot of depth and it gives you confidence.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it but no one seems to be able to define it to everyones satisfaction.

Im so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea whats going to happen.

I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. Id sing for whoevers on the door and theyd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day you know. So Id sing something like Mona Lisa Mona Lisa men have named you

If youre in your early 20s and youre hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real workers run into every day. Theyre running into a completely different set of problems like Whats the party going on right now that I should be going to?

I dont believe in strategies. I love what I am doing thats the main thing.

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

My mom didnt ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy very reserved kind of child. But obviously something changed!

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him Doctor.

If I give five flops I wont get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

Yes sir I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

I went to Rosemary Beach Florida for the first time in the spring of 2012.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years we had no competition.

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors poets and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that its not the healthiest way to live but its all I really have time for.

Every time I sit for a song I feel I am finished. Its like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

You just cant compare the WWE to anything else when it comes to sports entertainment. There is nothing like the WWE nothing like this machine I am working for and Im proud to work for.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

Theres something universal about illness… Whether you like it at some level all patients are saying Daddy Mommy help me tell me its going to be alright.

Im more interested in books than people and I always expect everybody else to be but theyre not.

In this respect the history of science like the history of all civilization has gone through cycles.

Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world but since I think of medicine as life + a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant Ill be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.

Both for my wife and myself the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.

My father I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young but only for a brief while. I dont think she had a great teacher. In any case neither of them were really into music at a young age.

If you only have a hammer you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

I think that maybe thats my weakness in that I dont know how to do it so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

Major sports are major parts of society. Its not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

My spelling is Wobbly. Its good spelling but it Wobbles and the letters get in the wrong places.

Theres something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when its dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what its about.

Don Was is a friend of mine weve done projects together over the years.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.

Photography is a way of feeling of touching of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things long after you have forgotten everything.

I think Im always running away from somewhere and to me theatres always felt like a good place to run away to.

Definition rationality and structure are ways of seeing but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

Singing for stage if you dont hear yourself thats when you push and thats when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

The 60s are gone dope will never be as cheap sex never as free and the rock and roll never as great.

Nation should be rest assured Pakistan is a safe atomic power. No one can cast an evil eye on it.

I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront – not just for me but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group a true co-op group you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.

Im pretty lucky to work on both CSI: NY and Supernatural. Not bad gigs!

The best we can do to paraphrase Pollan is to eat whole foods mostly plants and not too much.

It is a dire need for our young scientists to be proficient in running and using their lab equipment rather than depending on their assistants or workers. Once they learn how to use every lab equipment their scientific career is likely to progress smoothly.

As barbaric is we are its a miracle we havent blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

As an actor the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world the budgets are low. That allows me as an actor not to have a financial value behind my name to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of movies.

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do which is write snappy dialogue.

Racism is mans gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading Im afraid to interrupt her even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job.

My husband and I are just really laid back people.

Being around veteran leaders such as CC Sabathia and Brett Gardner really helped me.

Whenever I see a tree that is climbable it must be climbed. Sometimes when Im on a run Ill just run up a tree jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree in Saratoga gets me a good 75 feet up.

You cant predict a show that is the damndest thing you cant predict if a show is going to work or not until its on the air.

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love traditionally has been described as shared sexual attraction.

To win a championship you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

Its because I have no sense of shame that Im always willing to give things a go: Ive ridden horses naked into the sea Ive climbed rocks all kinds of things.

I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it but I like it.

Sure I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness thats something thats nice about maturing.

I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know writing rhyming breakdancing and graffiti.

I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.

I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.

In England or America actors do not have to cater to an image. In India it is almost demanded of us. Very seldom do you get a film where you can walk away from your image.

You have to trust your body to take care of you.

In any art you dont know in advance what you want to say – its revealed to you as you say it. Thats the difference between art and illustration.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist it kind of explains their work more intimately.

Wicked gave us a story that The Wizard of Oz did not. Two sides to every story.

I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

I mean Ive never really had much security to be honest.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West North and South have equally participated in it.

Of course Im not allowed to talk about the script but I can say it is a really good story.

Whats clear – and exciting – is that communication for social change is growing.

The function of the press in society is to inform but its role in society is to make money.

My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

The more knowledge you have the greater will be your fear of Allah.

Books that change you even later in life give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

But a lot of shows they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where theres no solution.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am they think Oh this guy must have always wanted to be in politics his parents must have been politically connected. Im a finance major and always intended to go into business.

Thats the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day along with several physicians and scientist colleagues I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.

Itll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. Im from suburbia so I dont really have any experience with what its going to be like here.

So I went in front of the judge and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And Im standing there and that judge said I was found guilty so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.

Ive been around the track a lot. Ive had the best of the years and I dont want a single year back.

I dont remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon be sensuous and have fun together.

I dont care if I get $50 million to do a film.

Im a nomad. A Jewish road warrior. I do not have a concept of home. I wish I did. But I live with the idea that we have to get out of town before dawn.

Art school can be a wonderful place if youre trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that youre going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

Human curiosity the urge to know is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

When I step into a characters shoes I dont judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more and act and react from a core you know?

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.

For me its always been about preparation and the more prepared I can be each week the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows its only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because thats my perception of life.

I love the city of New York. Its kind of fun. I grew up in the country so Im getting a little change of pace. The city has been great.

Before Mint.com I was a long-time user of Microsoft Money and Intuits Quicken. Both were powerful tools loaded with features and functionality around taxes investment budgeting – too feature-laden in fact. They took hours to set up and an hour a week to maintain.

Human beings can remain spiritual and religious while enjoying the benefits of rational administration of their affairs.

With The Social Network I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the worlds most antisocial person. I liked that story.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

Theres a lot of pride that business owners have. Its actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

I used to be able to eat and drink whatever I wanted. But now when Im in a suit and tie all the time sitting and being driven you can just feel your body.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers the lion never counts the herd that are about him nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Ive always basically done everything thats been offered to me. Im one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you arent even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone the terrorist is killed along with his victims his blood mixing with theirs.

This field is not necessarily glamorous nor does it often produce immediate results but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

Feminism isnt just for women. Its for men.

We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and institutions – these are our customers. Too often we see bitcoin and blockchain technologies as solutions in search of a problem. We dont just need these systems to be technically better than the alternatives – we need them to be more user-friendly.

I have all of the Apple products. Everything Ive ever written Ive written on a Mac. My first computer my roommates and I chipped in and we got that first Macintosh – 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.

Im waiting for them to come up with a Star Trek thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.

Ive got no interest in football. My brothers a footballer too and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I dont see much glamour in it.

I hope my pieces have an authenticity to them but my job is to filter the world and tell a story not to define and recreate exactly whats going on.

The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.

Ive been really lucky with the people that Ive gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them just by watching them.

Mans sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth man forgets that he is the servant of God.

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I am just your everyday average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I dont wear make-up. I go to the gym.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

We couldnt pitch the show without having created one at least one 20 to 25 minute version of Broad City. We wouldnt know how to describe it.

One I push my deadlines closer than anybody else or lets say it this way: Im really late.

In China I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language you will be assimilated but youll still be kept at arms length youll always be looked on as a foreigner.

I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.

Earths dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless that satisfaction can come only in violence division and intellectual isolation.

It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.

We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments when I read the script for the first time you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

The mindset that I have on every project I take on is How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it? So in that regard what I do behind the camera whether its still or motion picture is the same.

The way actors interact with their audience via Twitter is a part of their personality. So if I interact less that is a part of my personality. I am mostly lost in my own world.

I was a bit of a lost lamb in my twenties trying to find my higher calling.

The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.

If this is coffee please bring me some tea but if this is tea please bring me some coffee.

We must see what in the Israeli identity – in the Israeli – we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking expanding territory.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry all that he has learned about poetry is only a partial assurance.

Definition of Free: You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

When I have an idea Im like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.

In Memoriam has been my companion for all my grownup life.

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

We go fish we also catch fighting fish looking for birds and it was for kampong people the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

Promise me youll always remember: Youre braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

Ill never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I havent got what theyve got. But at least Im now comfortable just being myself.

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

The principle of Sturgeons Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

I believe it is an important project it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults I had to mature a lot quicker.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple – the bright boys specialised in Latin the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work then he becomes a lesser artist.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Doo-wop is the true music to me man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am and I guess even when I was in school the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day because Id be beating on the desks singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.

If people dont know who you are theyre not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN.