Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book. ”

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. ”

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. ”

I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage. ”

You get older, and people start passing away. And so if you're lucky - my mom died very young, for instance, and I have friends who died very young - but the point being that, I think if you're awake, you know you're going to pass on. And that the real treasure in life is the long term - relationships that you really value. ”

The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. ”

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk. ”

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. ”

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya. ”

The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally. ”