a spontaneous judgement

could be said for observation Intuitions are not wholly reliable, but also in the fact that we know so little about them

intuition is an expression of tacit knowledge.

intuition’s primary role is to understand or apprehend the salient features of a case – in the form of a judgement – and a secondary (indirect) role as evidence for or against philosophical theories.

a revival of the use of intuitions was prompted by Chomsky’s linguistics

aim to use intuitions as evidence

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directs and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind to themselves.

For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

I love skiing.

Life is just like a boomerang doing bad things to others and karma is turning back double to you.

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

All of us the great and the little have need of each other.

We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.

I believe within five to 10 years most larger corporations will switch to greener industrial enzymes, not just for the environment but also for their bottom line.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

I think God gave every one of us a cell phone, we just dropped it.

The Holy Bible is the Spirit of God exposed to humanity in the Language of Heaven.

You can see some very great theatre actors who don't work at all well on screen. They're trying too hard at it.

I am calm.

Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

There's something so glorious in giving control to the world. I think that's what I'm trying to do in my films - control the world but also let it be chaotic, let there be life.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.