Ancien regime — One of Taylor’s “types” of religious identity, the ancient and medieval ordering tied religious identity to political identity: the king is divinely appointed.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

I had worked in politics with Johnson and Nixon before becoming a historian and biographer. I kept discovering these dirtier, murkier threads in American politics that led back to Vegas' gambling interests and criminal connections.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

There are plenty of bad actors and there are plenty of bad directors. There are actors who will always be bad and there are good actors who you cry for because they're being badly directed or the material isn't good enough.

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.

I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get.

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Ultimately, Amazon is a weather pattern that disturbs everything around it.

The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn ones living at it.

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.

If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system.

I didn't leave the Congress; I was expelled.

Youre not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

The nap is mightier than the sword.

I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.

From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.