To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.

Every question was also an opportunity to create an impression that would guide how all subsequent answers to questions got interpreted.

Robbed of a rapt audience, advertisers know that influencing how you spend what to do while depends on having some control over how you spend the resources in your head.

Àlways remember to make it a great day.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

I'm very proud of my roles. I enjoy the ability to touch millions ofpeople and, in some way, connect with them in ways that I cannotconnect with them in my normal, everyday life.

I would like to travel to my country again, to a country without a dictatorship, to a post-Putin Russia.

It is not the visions but the activity which makes you happy, and the joy and glory of the flier is the flight itself.

The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.

A lyric has to mean something to me, something that has happened to me.

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.