I believe in open government. I've always believed in open government. I don't e-mail, however. And there's a reason: I don't want you reading my personal stuff.
Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times. . . a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.
On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
Reason is intuition's servant.
I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded him. "Who he had the good sense to kill off in the second act," snapped Sir Godfrey.
Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.
More often than not, nothingness is reluctantly and despairingly taken to be the only hypothesis possible when all the others have failed, since by definition it cannot be disproven and is beyond the scope of reason.
I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning
If this is airing in the future and no one knows who Karl Rove is - he's the reason you all live underground.
I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.
Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.
Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness. . . But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.
The number-one reason women say they returned to their abuser is financial insecurity. Often they have kids with them. They say half of the 66 million women and kids living in poverty in the US wouldn't be if women were just paid their full dollar. That's an enormous impact we could make on child hunger.
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason. No powder on her nose - that proved to be the correct solution. How can you build on such a quicksand? Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
The reason God made man before woman was that he didn't want any suggestions.
I believe in God. I always have. There's a reason that everything happens in life.