I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it.
I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No. 1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.
The worst thing about being famous? I think it's what everybody says. . the lack of privacy and the idea that you're not really allowed to make mistakes and everything that you do is viewed under a microscope.
I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.
Rock and roll is a nuclear blast of reality in a mundane world where no-one is allowed to be magnificent.
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself
The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.
I'm not allowed to bet, but if I could, my money would be on you.
In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.
I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.
I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.
My life is ticking away one subway token at a time - a never ending pirouette of arriving and departing, pushing through turnstiles, nodding goodbye and hello. In eight hours I'll be allowed to turn around and go home.
Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.
No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.
Getting bored is not allowed.
I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.
Would somebody please explain to me those signs that say, "No animals allowed except for Seeing Eye Dogs?" Who is that sign for? Is it for the dog, or the blind person?