Warum sich beschweren? Vertrauen in den Zufall ist gut, Kontrolle ist besser. Und schließlich bleibt alles beim Alten: Die einen suchen schnellen Sex, die anderen die Liebe fürs Leben und wie immer gibt es keine Garantien. Somit hätte sich wieder einmal alles geändert, damit es bleibt, wie es ist.

Jahrhunderte lang trug die Vorstellung romanischer Liebe den Keim der Revolution gegen Vernunft und Konventionen in sich sowie die Furcht vor dem Unbekannten. Der Spätkapitalismus zieht ihr diese beiden Krallen und verwandelt sie in ein Spiel, das nicht weniger abgekartet ist als jede Zwangsheirat.

Das Internet schreibt heute ganze Liebesgeschichten: Vom Kennenlernen über den Seitensprung zur organisierten Racheaktionen und anschließenden Seelsorge bis hin zur Scheidung – für alles gibt es einen Anbieter und noch einen, der für uns die verschiedenen Anbieter vergleicht.

Datingportale sind Maschinen, die durch Ein- und Ausschlussverfahren die Partnersuche regulieren sollen – unverbindlich und ganz individuell. Da bei so viel Kontrolle aber nichts dem Zufall überlassen werden darf, gehören Maskerade und Spionage zum digitalen Datingalltag.

Datingportale setzen allein in Deutschland seit 2006 jedes Jahr mehr als 100 Millionen Euro um, Tendenz steigend. Verständlich, dass Großkonzerne um die Gunst der Nutzer buhlen, deren Daten bei Übernahmegeschäften den Besitzer wechseln. Wer mitliest, weiß niemand.

Die Maschinen tun mehr, als bei der Partnersuche zu vermitteln. Sie zerlegen ihre Nutzer in Schokoladenseiten, sexuelle Vorlieben, politische Ansichten etc. und stellen somit Kontakt zwischen virtuellen Informations-Profilen her, die den Menschen dahinter als Objekt der Begierde ersetzen.

When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was not being able to see those people the following day. It was almost like divorcing 40 people.

The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice because it's my point of view.

In my experience, not just in shooting films but in the commercials I've done, initially, it's very exciting for the community, and its a real novelty. Very quickly, though, they realize there's a buck to be had, and it becomes annoying, and they lose their patience pretty quick.

Faith will move mountains

Stress is a choice. So is inner peace.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.

I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.

We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

I do find the sight of small children eating very moving. Watch the way their tiny fingers clamp the cutlery. The exaggeratedly precise way they move cups or glasses to their lips.

The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

Number one on my list of things to do before I die is become immortal. Obviously there is no number two on my list.

The whole point of taking a job is that you connect with a character or with an issue.

Never underestimate the influence you have on others.

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.

Break a vase and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

If someone wants a picture, I'm so honored and so flattered, and I hope I have a reputation as someone who goes out of his way to do those kinds of things.

After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

I certainly don't think that taxpayers should subsidize abortions.