There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.
There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.
The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic? Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.
I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.
But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.