I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.
Some people have got advice, some people have got horror stories. I like people that look you in the eye with a glow and say "It's gonna be cool. "
I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism. . . a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.
I never looked at Noah as an animal collector. I always thought of him as an apocalyptic character. I read everything I found about it and was surprised to find that in all religions there is the story of the flood, and that one "hero" saved the world. This proved that Noah and his Ark - were not a religious myth, and is evidence that humanity really went through the flood.
You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'
I hate having long hair. It's like walking around with a dead koala on your back!
If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.
What is distinctive about the U. S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered dangerous because it has the potential to function as a site where a culture of questioning can operate, the imagination can blossom, and difficult questions can be openly debated and critically engaged.
When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.
Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state