One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.
So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.
We have got to work on keeping these children engaged with the world.
I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.
If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.
I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.
When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.
When I was a little child I had problems with eating in the cafeteria. The chairs would be jerking in and out, and there was a noise overload.
We deem it of the first importance that the education of both sexes shall be equally full and complete, varied only as nature dictates.
We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.
When I grew up, there were no computers that anyone used, except for the big scientists. There was no internet, there were no VCRs.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.
When Wal-Mart and McDonald's start selling organic food, it will drive down the price to farmers and risk growing a new monoculture.
When the run is over, there will be a closing ceremony and the runners will return to the many distant lands from which they came.
Some companies now have their own codes of conduct against the use of child labour. The problem is monitoring their implementation.
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
Shuttling back and forth between what is possible and what is likely to occur is instructive and a lot of what shapes our sentiment.
Since I've been building quantum computers I've come around to thinking about the world in terms of how it processes information.
My entire career has been confronted with censorship. You can't talk about masturbation in America without confronting censorship.
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.
Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.
Never touch your clitoris dry, never. I can't emphasize enough lubrication.
I would deliver lectures that got standing ovations, but later, in the tests and essays, it was clear to me that the students just didn't get it.
If we could grow up knowing that the genitals are beautiful parts of our bodies, we'd be proud, we wouldn't have shame, we wouldn't have sexual guilt.
I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.
But we shouldn't be surprised when bad things happen, and we shouldn't think of the United States as a holy land suddenly blemished.
I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.
Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.
Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.
It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.
I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft.
I threw Spielberg out at 12:15 in the morning. Spielberg and the students. Coppola, out at 12:15. Billy Joel out at 12:15 in the morning.
I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
People are becoming more and more interested in science, and that's because they realize that science impacts their daily lives in important ways.
Our students get a good education here, and those who are highly motivated to go to college get accepted without the letters of recommendation.
Research has shown that IQ type tests account for about 10% of the variation in how successful people are in various aspects of their adult lives.
President Bush has been careful in his statements specifically about Iraq to emphasize that we are on a long, winding and sometimes deadly road.
I think one of the best things you can do, no matter what you play, is to take up piano. Music is based on chord changes and harmonies, and you can get 'em more out of an instrument like piano, where you can hear all the notes at once.
Junior high was a real mess for me and then came puberty. My anxiety attacks came during puberty, and then all of my nerves started.
Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.
When the choice comes down to industrial organic or local, I opt for the local, because it supports much more than good agricultural practice.
We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.
Well, we've worked with our friends in Haiti to establish nothing short of a modern medical center in one of the poorest parts of that country.
Unlike a lot of American specialists in the Middle East, who did one Fulbright year and now find their language is rusty, I kept up my Arabic.
UNICEF's Voices of Youth has organized many Internet chats, like the one you participated in, among children and teachers around the world.
Today we have so much more flow of private capital that most international imbalances are financed that way, by private capital movements.
The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.
This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.
The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.
When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
Fair market value, by definition, is the price at which a willing seller will sell and a willing buyer will buy.
But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.
Well, I don't think that the role of the pharmaceutical industry is any different from that of other transnational corporations.
The organized American air and ground pirates, who even call themselves murderers, are assisting in establishing this Jewish domination.
The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.
The other neat thing about these quantum computers is that they're also storing a bit of information on every available degree of freedom.
Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition.
Twenty years later, then, little, if anything, is left of the historic opportunities Gorbachev opened up for his country and the world.
What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?
We teach them ballroom dancing, because for so much of their careers they will be partnering each other the way you and I are right now.
We do restrict so-called reproductive freedom. We do not allow polygamy, we do not allow incest, we do not allow the buying and selling of babies.
We should beware of stereotypes as they tend to cramp thinking, but on the other hand, stereotypes exist and they are often transmitted via folklore.
Boycots are something that may make the person who's boycotting feel better, but it doesn't necessarily make conditions any better for the child.
At the first gathering of the Elders' Circle in 1976, a statement was issued concerning the unique balance between Humankind and our Mother Earth.
And UNICEF uses the Internet to spread ideas, exchange information, to raise awareness on rights and on how to better implement human rights.
Even die-hard fans of the market acknowledge that TB care should be free. Why? Because it's an airborne disease and treatment equals prevention.
I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.
I've spent the past six years with a young man, which was a nice break, dipping back into heterosexuality again from all my time with women.
The soldiers now are loved and they know the effort they're putting in to make our country great and the world better.
The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise.
So science is basically, at it most fundamental level, a public form of knowledge, a form of knowledge that is in principle accessible to everybody.
Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants remain at large and continue to plan attacks.
Rather, the point is to recognize the tightness between seeing and thinking on an intellectual level not just a metaphorical level.
Rather than point fingers at corporations, we came to the conclusion that we should strengthen our own ceremonies, strengthen what we do.
On this day, so full for Americans of thoughts connected with their National Independence, we may not forget that Americans have yet other grounds for gratitude to the people of the Netherlands.
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Then a strong bond develops as they ride together, pray together, eat meals together, and gather in the evening remembering the day's run.
A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.
So you can be pretty sure that central banks around the world will not start dumping dollars on the market in order to buy euros.
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
Young people can volunteer to work or raise funds for groups or organizations that work in this way with children in developing countries.
This democratization of science, this making it public, is in a sense the realization of a promise that science has held for a long time.
This class of writers comes most into contact with the barristers, because almost the exclusive occupation of the latter is to conduct litigation.
This means that the U.S. can pursue different interrogation policies in each location. In fact, Abu Ghraib highlights the benefits of Guantanamo.
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them.
At its heart, my work is about how to think clearly and deeply, using evidence, and all that has to pass through some presentation state.
A co-operative association designed to furnish labor for farming operations is clearly within the realm of practical achievement.
It was so astonishing for women to sit there looking at images of female genitals. When we took those photographs, I got body rushes.
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003.
That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.
Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.