Modern moral order — A new understanding of morality that focuses on the organization of society for mutual benefit rather than an obligation to “higher” or eternal norms. Thus the “moral” is bound up with (and perhaps reduced to) the “economic.”

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

I felt (a) it was a great role and (b) I wanted to stay in town. I wanted to stop going to these four month and five month gigs up in Toronto or Montreal or Vancouver or down in Mexico. I wanted to be around my son, Max. This came along and I was like, 'I really want to play this guy!'

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

I am a chameleon when it comes the way I dress. I am constantly changing it up, and I really can't commit to one thing because dressing for the day or for an event is really a mood thing. I like variety, and I don't mean just designers, I mean mixing the high-end garments and the cheaper clothing.

Tennis and golf are best played not watched.

Ethics is not about platitudes let alone tautologies logic or mathematics but about difficult choices dilemmas.

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love, then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that American dream.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

In a world of iPads and emails, nothing has really changed in the theatre. You still get in an hour early, do your wardrobe, put an old pair of tights under your wig, and you have, 'This is your call, Miss Jensen'. I got exhilarated by that.

I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.

Its your purpose that keeps you grounded and growing throughout your process.

You can measure height. But you can't measure heart.

My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their world in a different way.

After 9/11, the businesses in my district and throughout the New York metropolitan area saw firsthand the result of a lack of availability of terrorism insurance.

Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'

I love playing the bitter guy.

I know Gov. Palin is a classy lady and has her head on straight.

If you're a man, you don't cry about it, you take life, the ups and downs; if you're a real man you never go down, you just stay up!