You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.

I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

You dont know how good you are until you actually get out on a bike and get riding.

Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.

In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.

I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.

There is no weakness in being able to love fully. It takes courage tenacity and an emotional intelligence that most people are incapable of.

It is very easy to love alone.

I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was Southern California Public High School. Needless to say, I wasn't there for long.

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

We celebrate the Bill Gateses of the world. We're not mad at Bill Gates.

Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles.

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.

Because teenagers don't have adult responsibilities yet, you can create your own drama, and it's a universe of your own emotions.