Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don’t.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

My business is the analytical framework.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.

Take what interests and knowledge you can from books, but do not let them replace words and thoughts of your own.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans and supporters.

Create a vision that makes you wanna jump out of bed in the morning.

Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.

you don't know what you think unless you say it.

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.