Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly but the whole process is very expensive.
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
Success consists in being successful not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace but there's no palace till it's built.
I was vegetarian for a long time and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral rooting interest an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right it can make for a really rousing movie experience.
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans it's communities it's geography.
I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
Science is built up of facts as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
Since achieving their independence in 1992 the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law respect for human rights and a free market economy.
Ragtime has about the same amount of respect as comics. And in a way they're similar art forms. Ragtime is highly compositional and the emotion in the music is built in whereas in jazz a lot of that emotion comes from the way it's performed.
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
This relationship is going to be built on trust.
First President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.