The average person expels flatulence 15 times each day!
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.
It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.
Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.
Das Kapital, I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.
We know too little about global wealth dynamics, so we need international transmission of bank information.
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.
The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death before he could be got back, but I am not able to tell how many have ended up in hospital. We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death.
None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter
If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.
I think that I originally became an actor because I was super, super dramatic. Over the top, all the time. I was the kid that would bump my knee and scream and cry as if I'd been shot in the face. So just automatically, the only outlet for my drama was acting and I loved theater.