The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories from education to infrastructure.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

The hoary joke in the literary world based on 'Dreams From My Father ' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama he could have made it as a writer.

This city can be kind of brutal so you see your dreams from every different angle but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting you will always enjoy acting.

You only get one album. You only get one single. You get one shot in music. But I have a million different dreams. Why can't I go out and try to achieve them all? Who are you to say I can't?

A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams and not just wait for life to happen and opportunities to come knocking at your door.

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams fears joys sorrows desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.

As you look back at your life there are just a million different things that have happened just in the right way to allow you to make your dreams come true. And you know someone has all that under control.

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22 1963 the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.

In our increasingly secular society with so many disparate gods and different faiths superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people different beliefs different yearnings different hopes different dreams.

Love is such an objective thing. I mean I can say I love my family or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess in different ways yeah I do believe in love.

I always recommend a sensible diet including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy.

Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

I saw many people who had advanced heart disease and I was so frustrated because I knew if they just knew how to do the right thing simple lifestyle and diet steps that the entire trajectory of their life and health would have been different.

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

Different people have different styles but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision and everything can be obsessed over.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.