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

I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water.

What is guilt It is moral self reproach I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

I really love modeling a lot. Once I am behind the camera and start moving, there's a kind of energy that makes me feel good. But I know I have to prepare for something else before I grow up.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Marriage is one of the few institutions that allow a man to do as his wife pleases.

The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.

The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigration even in wartime are gradually ruining Europe. That's why I believe Brexit is good for British freedom, political autonomy, and the survival of democratic capitalism.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

I don't want to replace anyone, especially Charlie Sheen.

Ambiguity depletes as your budget rises.

Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

In the '80s, it got to the point where we'd have shows with a hundred looks. You'd want to order a pizza before it was over!

I don't mind being naked.

The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love just because it didnt work out the first time.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

When you decide to be all you can be you will be better for it.