The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.
The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.
The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.
The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.
Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.
I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.
In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.
Actually, I can't take credit for any of my decisions. I noticed one day that all my decisions were making themselves, and always at the right time. I haven't had to make one decision since then. They are always made for me, and they come from the wisdom that is in us all. I trust that wisdom completely. That trust itself was a decision made for me as inquiry cleared my mind. No decision, no fear.
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills.
I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.
You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system. ' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.