Don’t get me started on Americans and war. One of the things I learnt over in Italy is how they mythologised the war so that it’s all good old gung-ho guys from Omaha and ignored everyone else’s role.
It’s one of the things I respect about Time Warner and Turner: their understanding of CNN’s independence.
One of the things that we’re all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don’t think it’s impossible to do that, but it’s difficult.
One of the things I’ve always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there’s a certain level of playfulness to them, and pure imagination and creativity.
You know, one of the things I’ve learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it’s tough.
One of the things that I think I do well as a CEO is that I’m present. When I’m with my employees, I’m there in the moment.
One of the things that has proven true in our career is that even if you take something that’s as straightforward and classic as a father-son story, you can express it in a way that’s totally unique to you.
One of the things that we have to keep in mind on Iran is Iran is also a country with ballistic missiles, cyber capabilities.
I thought ‘The Hot Zone’ was fascinating, mesmerizing. It’s one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.
The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.
One of the things we recognized coming out of 2015 is we had to get more and more high-level competition.
I’ve argued for a long time here… that I think that one of the things that is absolutely killing parity is the individual maximum salary.
One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.
One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a country of opportunity; you can be of any religion, colour, ethnicity, persuasion and make it to the top of your chosen field. And that’s something I admire about America and hope they continue with.
One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it’s almost a non-event when it happens.
I think we’re in a disposable world and ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is one of the things that hasn’t quite been thrown away yet.
Repetitiveness is one of the things that’s most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they’re presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.
One of the things that Marjorie has done has given me the joy of family. It’s a joy I never really knew. I spent a long time being lonely and hiding, and now, at Christmas, there’s this huge family. That’s something that’s very new to me. And very special.
One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that – and keep affirming that – women can sell movies.
One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn’t be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy – just not in the same moment that you’re sad.
One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn’t have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
I’ve always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.
One of the things that impacted me the most was in the 12th grade. I just assumed I would get the lead in the musical. Well, I didn’t get it; I got the second lead, and I was devastated… my mom said something like, ‘Often the supporting character is better.’
When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that’s one of the things I think General Motors does really well. There’s a big population that buys our trucks. It’s their life – or it’s their livelihood. Not their lifestyle, their livelihood. It’s a work truck.
One of the things that’s important to me as a Londoner is making sure my family, people I care about, are safe.
A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I’m so keen on expressing is that, if you don’t do it for yourself, if you’re always seeking affirmation from outside, you’ll never have a home. It’ll just be a house.
One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help – that they will never be abandoned.
One of the things I loved about working on ‘Portal’ was that we’d get emails from people saying, ‘I love to play first-person shooters but my girlfriend won’t play them with me. But I got her to play ‘Portal’ and she had a blast.’
One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.
I don’t want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
I used to deal with high-profile criminal cases that were covered extensively in the media, and one of the things I quickly appreciated was there was a gulf between what really took place in the middle of a case, the impact on victims, the effect on the police and how they solved crimes, and the way it was reported.
Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that’s not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that’s an absolute requirement.
I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything’s going to fall apart.
One of the things is, I don’t read my own press. I never watch myself.
One of the things I’ve observed since I was a kid, is that if you work on something long enough you’ll find I, even if you’re lost for a while you’ll find it.
I think one of the things that saved me is that I never put all my eggs in one basket.
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That’s one of the things about teaching abroad.
A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn’t seem so hard.
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in ‘Line of Duty’ was that I don’t think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.
I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn’t find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
Growing up, I always wanted kids, and that was one of the things that made it hard for me to accept being gay, but now I know it’s totally an option to have kids.
I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that’s one of the things that he’s going to have to find a way to get on the agenda.
When someone calls me a blogger, I think, ‘That’s one of the things I used to do.’ I’m a creative director for my shoe brand; I’m the editor-in-chief of ‘The Blonde Salad,’ which is a website and not just a blog anymore.
One of the things that’s really, really present in ‘Between the World and Me’ is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
I try to get away. It’s very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things I’ve had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet.
Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don’t accept my circumstances.
