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I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present. ”
I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way. ”
My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements. ”
A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory. ”
With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate. ”
This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction. ”
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species. ”
Some of the 'aha' insights that scientists strive for may have to await the emergence of post-human intellects. ”
From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore. ”
All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law. ”