I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

I never could have thought of it, To have a little bug all lit And made to go on wings.

I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.

I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.

It's important to me to create the largest wonder.

Today is the day of decision.

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

The moment you think you have charisma you are finished.

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.

We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living.

Archeologists 10000 years from now will believe this was a sacred feast where gravy boats were worshipped.

I am well. Do not worry about my health.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

If you're going through hell, don't stop, keep moving!

Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech.

I'm a very self-conscious person; I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances; it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

I never had any coffee or anything like that. I just never tried it.

If you turned into a wolf, there's no reason why you'd become evil and start eating people, is there? You'd just be a wolf, run around, try to catch rabbits or something.

People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.