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

There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I don't watch movie trailers. I just go to the movie, and I don't know anything about it, because that's the only way I appreciate the movie fully.

There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.

Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.

When I was a kid, the people that used to push other people around, if someone whacked them, then they wouldn't be pushing people around again. But you can't really do that with adults.

I wanted a Broadway credit, but 'Crazy Ex' came along, and it blessed me.

Its not what you know its not even who you know its what you implement that counts.

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.

I used to have this superstition where I had to eat steak every night before I played, and my nutritionist told me don't do that. So after I lost that one, the other ones fell off pretty quickly.

The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.

I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

We want to believe racism is an artifact of the past, and if you have a political massacre, that contradicts that.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.