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I think I started writing about identity, and I used to believe that identity is the story. But now I'm not so much subscribed to that. I mean, with 'Mr. Fox,' it has a feminist agenda as well. And so, as I sort of been away from writing about identity, I still feel that kind of tug of roots and, you know, cultural background. ”
When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. ”
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. ”
I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis. ”
In 2007, when my husband Damian Woetzel took on the artistic direction at the Vail Valley International Dance Festival, we both felt it was important to offer the entire Vail community access to dance. ”
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral. ”
Eighty per cent of global warming comes from livestock and deforestation. ”
I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective. ”
Tax has generated a significant amount of discussion, and companies are forced to do what they can to maintain that global competitiveness and perform. ”
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. ”