Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

You can't manage by memo. You can't stand up there and just send out edicts. I think you just gotta really personalize your relationships. ”

Ever since I managed with guaranteed contracts and all the media, you know, you can get distracted by fame and fortune. Your values can get distorted. And the way you break through is, you just keep it personal and keep it simple and basic. ”

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations. ”

When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point that I'm incapable of speech. I feel that if I start speaking, I'll lose the writing, like getting off the treadmill. ”

It's the best, being able to work on so many different things I love. There's nothing else I'd rather be doing. ”

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation. ”

Social democrats are characteristically modest - a political quality whose virtues are overestimated. We need to apologise a little less for our shortcomings and speak more assertively of achievements. That these were always incomplete should not trouble us. ”

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception. ”

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job. ”

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not. ”