Excarnation — The process by which religion (and Christianity in particular) is dis-embodied and de-ritualized, turned into a “belief system.” Contra incarnational, sacramental spirituality.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

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

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

I don't want to let my family down; I don't want to let myself down. That's probably the biggest thing I fear.

The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.

Order your soul. Reduce your wants.

Interracial marriages were basically legalized, but nevertheless, there was a social stigma attached to them for a long time to come. I imagine that's going to be true for same-sex marriages - that people's emotional comfort level with it will not fully materialize for decades.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

In wrestling, my mustache made me look more like a villain. A good mustache can give you the look of the devil.

Money can buy you a fine dog but only love can make him wag his tail.

I guess thats what saying good bye is always like like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once youre in the air theres nothing you can do but let go.

After 'Kelis Was Here,' I was done. I was like, 'I will never put out another record again; I hate this business; I hate all these people.' I was in this race that I didn't even realise that I was in.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

If events had taken a different course, I could have been one of those children going to a school without the sorts of opportunities that I've subsequently had.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Your husband is lazy if coffee doesnt keep him awake even when its hot and being spilled on him.

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

What I do on film is part of my profession.

Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.

I'm not an interviewer. I have conversations.

I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.

When the danger is great, one must not run away.