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There are huge areas where the human mind is apparently incapable of forming sciences, or at least has not done so. There are other areas - so far, in fact, one area only [physics] - in which we have demonstrated the capacity for true scientific progress.

There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.

You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.

Credible reports came through that Syria had used chemical weapons. Whether it's true actually is still open to question, but it's very probably true. At that point, what was at stake was what is called credibility. So if you read the political actors, political leadership, foreign policy commentary, they constantly point out accurately that US credibility was at stake, and we have to maintain US credibility. So therefore something had to be done to show you can't violate our orders.

Most of what is done I think is to kept secret so the public won't know. The same is true of what Wikileaks exposed.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.

I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.

I could be a yoga instructor. I'm not certified, but I could do it. Once I did a class where the instructor didn't show up, and I just went to the front and did it, and everyone followed. So I've done it before, and I love it.

I've done a lot of bad TV and bad movies. I've also done some really great things.

I've never done Something Rotten either.

I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

And so he did the hardest thing he’d ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.

I suppose the underlying current for me is the idea of not doing something I've done before. I call myself a character actor and I'm always trying to stay a character actor.

Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line.

The conversations about a film are an example of success because then you know whatever you've done has resonated.

I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of intimacy that you create. Because it becomes very intimate.

Ive predominantly done comedy over the years.

Just when they thought I was done for the winter, I came out stuntin I'm such a big spender.

What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.

We only came up with the Kaiser Chiefs about a year and a half ago when we scrapped every song we'd ever done. It was a complete change of direction, songs, outlook and everything.