If people have multiple identities and deal with multiple realities, why should we expect them to be ontological purists?

The real trick in highly reliable systems is somehow to achieve simultaneous centralization and decentralization.

Specifically, I would suggest that the effective organization is garrulous, clumsy, superstitious, hypocritical, monstrous, octopoid, wandering, and grouchy.

Your beliefs are cause maps that you impose on the world, after which you 'see' what you have already imposed.

Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do.

Rank and expertise do not necessarily coincide.

There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.

Media was once about protecting a name

I've had a lot of movies that didn't get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I didn't want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.

He who labours, prays.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.