Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.
Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.
You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.
I don't choose roles. I go where I'm wanted.
Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.
When dogs fulfill their roles they are ecstatically happy.
For the only time in my career, I came in and met Tony [Richardson] for the part - I did not read, I just met with him - and in the middle of the meeting, he told me that I had the part [in The Hotel New Hampshire]. There was never, "Well, thank you, and we'll have my people call your people." There was none of that kabuki that goes on now endlessly for even the smallest role.
Random Roles? Oh, I saw Virginia Madsen do this the other day! You see? I'm paying attention!
I happen to be a movie star, but I'm not saying, "Hey, I'm a role model. Imitate me."
I'll be a role model on my terms, but don't make a role model on your terms.
Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats - all of it.
I think that if one's role doesn't correspond to what one says, if one's life doesn't correspond to what one preaches, if one is not true to one's people, someone else will come as a substitute.
I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.
I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.
Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.
I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.
We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.
To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.
When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."
I once took on the role of the Batman for a commercial about equal pay for women.
If it suits [God] to be a deity that we must seek without being forced to, would it not have been sensible for him to use the mechanism of evolution without posting obvious road signs to reveal his role in creation?
I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.
People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.
Mike Huckabee and indeed many of the Christian conservatives in the U.S. have far more in common with the Muslim Brotherhood than they'd like to admit, in that all of them very much want to see a role of religion in society.
I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.
