“On Sharon Stone (Quick and the Dead): 'She was instrumental about me getting my first American job. Absolutely, without her support, it would not have happened. At the same time, however, was it really about me or her wanting to flex her producerial muscles? I don't want to sound ungallant about the situation. But I didn't find that in working with her, that we clicked on any other level.” WantFirstsJobsSoundLevelsSituationSupportHappenedStonesMusclesSharonAmerican Jobs Author:Russell Crowe
“I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on.” IfsWayTwoChristWonderSupportHappenedConditionsPlanetsPercentGardenScientistIntelligentArguingRoutineAgonyCrucifixionIntelligent Life Book:Flying to America: 45 More Stories Source: Flying to America: 45 More Stories
“I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.” ChildrenHomeLeftSupportHappenedAreasMy FamilyWoundedTornFifthFamily Support Author:Djimon Hounsou
“I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. No health insurance, so if something happened I was screwed. I was lucky my parents had money and my brother was willing to support me for a long time. Once I started doing standup, I had an income, and that was amazing to me.” IfsLongParentSupportHappenedWillingBrotherLuckyLong TimeIncomeBrokeMy BrotherSupport Me Author:Lewis Black
“Inside each of us is a unique person resulting from millennia of environment and heredity combined in a way that could never happen again and could never have happened before. We aren't blank slates, but we are also communal creatures who are born before our brains are fully developed, so we're very sensitive to our environment. The question is: How to find the support and the circumstances that allow you to express what's inside you?” WayPersonsHappensBornBrainSupportEnvironmentHappenedCircumstancesCreaturesUniqueSensitiveBlankOur EnvironmentSlateHeredityBlank Slates Author:Gloria Steinem
“If Holocaust happened, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this.” IfsYearsGovernmentPastLyingResponsibilitySupportHappenedBearsThousandResearchYears AgoHistoricalDeedsHolocaustPalestinianThousand Years Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“When the September 11th attacks happened, only about a year later, the crypto community was holding its breath because here was a time when we just had an absolutely horrific terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and if the NSA and the FBI were unhappy with anything, Congress was ready to pass any law they wanted. The PATRIOT Act got pushed through very, very quickly with bipartisan support and very, very little debate, yet it didn't include anything about encryption.” IfsYearsLittlesWantedLawCommunitySupportHappenedReadyBreathsCongressDebateTerroristUnhappySoilSeptemberPatriotFbiSeptember 11NsaHorrificTerrorist AttacksBipartisanSeptember 11thPatriot ActEncryption Author:Matt Blaze
“I think that one of the other lessons about what happened here is that open carry laws, even though many police, sheriff departments in Colorado support them, make it much harder for law enforcement to do their jobs.” ThinkingJobsLawSupportHappenedLessonsHarderPoliceDepartmentLaw EnforcementEnforcementColoradoSheriffs Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl