Buffered self — In the modern social imaginary, the self is sort of insulated in an interior “mind,” no longer vulnerable to the transcendent or the demonic. Contrast with the porous self.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

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

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

The country is stronger than the result of any one election. But we shouldn't forget that these are just ordinary people. I wish Americans would look at them level, not down or up - just level. It doesn't take some special dimension to be president.

All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

On our first record, man, I didn't know what I was doing. I was just playing. I was over playing. You're as green as you can be with no experience in recording or knowing how sometimes a song can work: when it's too much, when it's not enough, when it's not right.

I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.

The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.

To get rich is glorious.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

Objective is the wrong word. Rather its fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

It's usually human drama that carries with it issues of race or class that attracts me. That was certainly the case with 'No Crossover.'

In temperate zones, winter is the best insecticide; it keeps the bugs in check. The tropics enjoy no such respite, so plants there have developed a wide range of alkaloids that kill off nosy insects and animals.

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

As far as diversity's concerned, there's me, there's Al Madrigal, there's Aasif Mandvi. But I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out.

You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.