Take — A construal of life within the immanent frame that is open to appreciating the viability of other takes. Can be either “closed” (immanentist) or “open” (to transcendence). See also spin.

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

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Transformation perspective

Unthought

Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.

I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

It doesn't make any difference what religion you are, or how young you are or how old you are-if they go to these abortion mills and stand there and pray-that would make a lot of difference.

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

I love 'The Americans.' I think it's one of the best shows on TV.

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share.

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.

You need mountains long staircases dont make good hikers.