I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country – people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You’ve got to be more worried about your own people.
If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can’t be safe.
I’m from England, and like every other great empire who stole bits of the world, there is a price to pay. And I was born in 1935. So, since I’ve been conscious of the world, I’ve either been in, or been on the periphery of, a war zone.
My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.
If Spider-Man had to appear on the 90th floor of the Empire State Building, the crew would take the elevator up, open the window and say: ‘OK, Nicholas, out you go!’ There were no tricks or computer effects.
I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and ‘Inland Empire’s’ one of the earlier books I read!
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.
I come from a family where my father did things single-handedly and he built a music empire himself.
East Coast, West Coast, all that needs to cease. Everyone wants hip-hop to be this big empire, but we’re not going to get to the level we want to get to because of the stupidity.
I’ve been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.
After the success of ‘Empire’ and ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ and ‘Scandal’ and ‘Power’ and ‘Black-ish’, which all had characters that were genuine, authentic, and had the language of real people, I found myself coming into pilot season and every network just wanted to have their version of one of those shows.
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth. Their mercantile empire spanned the planet. They had the most potent and experienced army and navy the world had ever seen.
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.
I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.
‘Empire’ was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn’t what I expected it to be.
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
I don’t take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire – why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
I waited for seven years for something like ‘The Empire.’
‘Power’ came in August. February 2014, ‘Empire’ ended. That whole time, I was like, ‘You know what, let me just take a break from this and focus on music’ so in that time period, I did my whole EP. Got the single ‘Lotto.’
I don’t care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
When Young Dolph dead and gone, people still going to be talking about the Paper Route Empire.
The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany.
Empire Square production finishes in about a month’s time, so at the moment, right now, I’m just completely full on Empire Square. There’s no time to do anything else. But there’s a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks… although the latter is much less realistic.
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.
I watch a variety of shows. I love ‘Veep,’ ‘Parks and Recreation,’ ‘Girls,’ ‘Mad Men,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ and fun shows like ‘Empire.’
With its brutal empire and legalised slavery, the Roman Republic was hardly a towering beacon of progressive values.
I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion’s relationship to politics.
I love ‘Boardwalk Empire.’ I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we’d be.
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority – and perhaps of the lives – of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles.
There’s only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.
The racism of the Nazis threatened to make whatever we had experienced look like child’s play. If they could be so brutal to the Jews, what would they do to the blacks? So large numbers of black young men and women rallied to the defence of the empire.
When I first did ‘Empire,’ it was a severe break from everything I’d written up to that point, which is all very continuity-driven, super-heroic, and ethics and morals-infused. ‘Empire’ was a chance to break away from that.
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope and one Emperor. Divine providence has specially appointed the Roman Empire to prevent the continuance of schism in the Church.
I’ve always thought that the – as far as regions of the country that people brag about, as far as top talent, the Inland Empire is awfully hard to beat.
I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
I grew up in India. From my childhood, I remember the great reverence that people held for our national hero, Mahatma Gandhi. He galvanized millions to march as one, disarmed the empire that had ruled his country for nearly a century, and enabled India to become a free and independent nation.
The long years of fighting Napoleon’s ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an ‘us-against-them’ mentality.
I have my fashion empire to build.
