“Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for having espoused the concepts of democracy, freedom throughout a very difficult communist period, a very modest man, and somebody with a fabulous sense of humor and the idea of being able to see the absurd in situations.” MenIdeasAbleDifficultTermSituationMoralDemocracyPeriodsAuthorityConceptsAbsurdCombinationMassiveSense Of HumorCommunistModestFabulousMost AmazingDemocracy FreedomMoral AuthorityAmazing Man Author:Judy Woodruff
“The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.” MayMomentsPiecesModernDangerPeriodsHearingTiedModern Music Author:Aldis Hodge
“I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.” IfsPersonsCountryCommunityChurchRolesMillionsInvolvedPeriodsModelsInstitutionsMalesRole ModelsMale Role Models Author:Donald Miller
“The fastest I ever did that was when Kill the Moonlight came out after Girls Can Tell, and I remember both labels I was working with at the time saying, "If this was any other period, I would probably say this is too fast, but because this is first time anybody has ever paid attention to Spoon, let's keep it on an upward trajectory."” IfsFirstsRememberGirlAttentionPeriodsFirst TimePaidLabelsMoonlightSpoonsTrajectory Author:John Britt Daniel
“I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was "Baby Jesus" - so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!” MadeWantedSchoolUsedJesusNamesStudyFashionStupidBabyPeriodsClothesSellsLabelsTeenagerDesignerOnlineStylistBaby Jesus Author:Bethany Cosentino
“Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.” LanguageVoiceEffortPeriodsUniqueAdmireAdamFavouriteInventingUnique Voices Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.” EndsCharacterStoriesFilmStuffRealizingMiddlePeriodsMajorsBeginnings And Endings Author:Feist
“For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.” CareersPeriodsMusicalBreakthroughDeparture Author:Questlove
“You got to miss class to do it. Like, many periods of school. And then they took us to an elementary or middle school, and we told kids that they could be cool when they grew up even if they didn't do drugs.” IfsKidsSchoolClassMiddleMissingGrewPeriodsDrugGrew UpBeing CoolMiddle School Author:Ilana Glazer
“I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.” ThinkingHatePeriodsWorriedAttractiveFlawsScar Author:Angelina Jolie
“I had a period after touring the first record where I didn't agree with the way things worked in the music industry as far as how you release music, demand, the pace of everything. You don't know who's talking to you. Who's Spotify? Who's iTunes? Who are all those bloggers? Who says I have to do this? Why do you have to do all this press? Why do I have to do so many shows? Why do I have to do a regular album right now? I don't understand it.” KnowsWayFirstsShowsTalkingRecordsIndustryPeriodsRight NowDemandAgreePressesAlbumsReleasePaceTouringMusic IndustryBloggersItunesSpotify Author:Lykke Li
“I think there was a brief period where Norwegian bands were evolving and that was an interesting time where it seemed like a band like Darkthrone was stuck in the midst of a lot of change and seemed a bit redundant.” ThinkingBitsInterestingPeriodsBandStuckEvolveMidstRedundantNorwegiansInteresting Times Author:Mat McNerney
“Call-and-response style, yes, exactly. So whenever different groups get together then there has to be this long period of negotiation. How will we worship? What's acceptable? What's not? If I want to say "Amen" can I?” IfsWantLongDifferentTogetherGroupsStylePeriodsWorshipResponseAcceptableNegotiationGet TogetherAmen Author:Michael Emerson
“There's a lot of life there, but it's a different sort, because there's a lot less immigrants and a lot more racial, the mix of black and white in particular. I've actually never been to their worship for an extended period of time, so I can't comment wisely on it.” I CanDifferentBlackWhiteParticularPeriodsWorshipImmigrantsCommentBlack And White Author:Michael Emerson
“I remember the period in the 1980s where the Beatles were terminally uncool, and it seemed to me then like they were just my little secret, and the rest of the world didn't know anything about them.” KnowsWorldLittlesRememberSecretPeriodsUncool Author:Alasdair MacLean
“I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year.” YearsWholeHouseDyingPeriodsScaredEightNineWhole Year Author:Jens Lekman
“I was going through a period where I was just trying not to write songs and was thinking maybe I wouldn't play in a band and make records anymore.” ThinkingWritingTryingPlaySongRecordsPeriodsBand Author:Tim Rutili
“When you come from a privileged household, we've been able to buy monthly feminine products since the first day that we got our periods. A lot of women out there have absolutely no means to be able to afford something that seems as simple and as much of a no-brainer as a feminine product. I think Monthly Gift has a really brilliant cause - giving underprivileged girls free feminine products every month.” ThinkingGivingFirstsMeanSeemsAbleGirlCausesSimpleProductsMonthsPeriodsBrilliantFeminineHouseholdPrivilegedUnderprivilegedNo Brainer Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.” ThinkingWantTryingGirlSpeakSocialFeltHeardInfluenceNeededPeriodsSexualityPlatformsStigmaSpeaks OutPositive Influence Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.” LooksLongPeriodsBeatsHip HopHipsTeenagerHopsSampleHendrix Author:Gustav Ejstes
“Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as a character for a book, but my idea was for a totally different book. It had all these characters in it; Samuel Pepys was one of the main characters. He famously wrote these extensive diaries through the period that are really funny and sort of saucy, actually.” PeopleThinkingBookIdeasDifferentCharacterCoursesPeriodsDiariesMain CharactersDifferent BooksThinking About Her Author:Danielle Dutton
“I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.” PeopleWayWantPeriodsBehaveWant Me Author:Jessa Crispin
“I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.” IfsThinkingImportantSometimesDoneShowsBigsAgeFilmCoursesChanceSpaceStreetsCarHavensChangedPeriodsScriptsGlassesDetailsLondonScreensRangeCrewReally Inspiring Author:Lone Scherfig
“There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.” PeopleYearsReadyPeriodsElephantsGestationGestation Period Author:John Amaechi
“America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.” PeopleYearsWarAmericaReligiousSpecialSourcePeriodsEnlightenmentEuropeAttractionPersecutionRenaissanceFleeingReligious Persecution Author:Mitch Horowitz
“Women had no clerical role anywhere in the Western world, period.” WorldRolesPeriodsWesternWestern World Author:Mitch Horowitz
“The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.” YearsLongStillsPeriodsDegreesInsecurityLaddersBachelorsTenureApprenticeshipPhdsMedian Author:Louis Menand
“Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.” YearsLongIdeasAgeGivenCasesMiddlePeriodsMathematicsAbstractLong AgoNew IdeasMathematicianMiddle AgesGiven UpRenaissance Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“England has had a lot of really bad periods of music, but it's had several amazing periods where they've found an incredible balance, not just between music that's a rather complex and also pretty direct. Like the Beatles.” FoundBalancePeriodsDirectEnglandComplexesIncredibles Author:Tod Machover
“I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.” ThinkingWayLongI CanImportantIdeasReasonSoundSilenceEnvironmentFocusPeriodsQuietSettingSettingsParadoxComposingLong Periods Of TimeSilence Love Author:Tod Machover
“I think it's maybe because Sergeant Pepper's came out when I was about 13 or 14 and that was a pretty impressionable age, and it was such a kind of radical period. But that period of the Beatles really had a big influence on me and I think are directly related to hyperinstruments.” ThinkingKindBigsAgeInfluencePeriodsRadicalRelatedPeppersSergeantsImpressionable Author:Tod Machover
“In the early-'60s, when you look at that period of time - up to the mod time - when everybody was wearing skinnier suits and skinny lapels and skinny ties - that came out of the States, and that was quite cool.” LooksStatesPeriodsSuitsTiesSkinnyMods Author:Paul Weller
“Not only are we reading life code, we're beginning to copy it through cloning, and we're beginning to write, and in the measure that we do that, boy, you can build a lot of very powerful companies in a short period of time.” WritingReadingPowerfulCompanyBoysPeriodsCodeCopiesVery PowerfulCloningReading Life Author:Juan Enriquez
“During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.” TalkingGoes OnPeriodsEnglandFranceSouthernScotlandWalesSplittingNormandySouthern Italy Author:Juan Enriquez
“It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.” WantMeanAliveMissingPeriodsHistoricalExtraordinaryNeat Author:Juan Enriquez
“There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.” LittlesEnergyBitsAbilityCreativityPeriodsThousandLittle BitSittingFoldsRenaissance Author:Juan Enriquez
“Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge.” LooksSelfDreamGirlCoursesSexBoysPeriodsInternalsExplorationPregnancyWetSelf KnowledgeUnwantedEjaculationWet DreamsUnwanted Pregnancy Author:Peggy Orenstein
“There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.” PiecesNew YorkPeriodsHollywoodMakeupCostumesOld HollywoodOld New York Author:Jenny Slate
“I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.” ThinkingLooksWould BeInterestRolesPiecesPeriodsDressesFancyFabulousCostumes Author:Ian Astbury
“I like the idea of getting to dress up, like to do a Barry Lyndon or something about the Napoleonic period, the grand army retreating from Moscow. I understand that there's a craft to acting and a lot of people work hard at it. I just know that music is my first love. I love music, I love film, and I love clothes.” PeopleKnowsFirstsIdeasHardFilmActingHard WorkPeriodsClothesMusic IsArmyDressesCraftsFirst LoveMusic LoveMoscowI Love MusicLove FilmsNapoleonic Author:Ian Astbury
“I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry."” IfsWayWritingWellsSaidForceProcessAnswersNovelStudentsMinesPeriodsNovelistsJaneBookstoresQuestions And AnswersSmiley Author:Edward Hirsch
“So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.” PeopleThinkingWellsHappensRememberReadingWrittenHappenedPeriods Author:Paul McCartney
“A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these are people that have truly learned and mastered the choices that they have and how to deal with those choices over a very, very long period of training, so essentially what they're really doing is ruling out all the irrelevant choices and only zeroing in on the most relevant, useful choices at the moment.” PeopleLongMomentsChoicesStarsDealsNumbersMastersPeriodsTrainingTrackChessInstantRelevantIrrelevantGalaxyRuling Author:Sheena Iyengar
“Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.” KnowsWorldWarStuffFoodGrewPeriodsAnxietyCookingWar Of The WorldsCulinaryWorld War IiCowsPotatoesHog Author:James Earl Jones
“Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not necessarily a path to citizenship, so as to not create incentives for future people that aspire to come to our country to do so illegally when they could come legally.” PeopleCountryPathPeriodsDignityWorkersOur CountryAspireCitizenshipIncentivesUndocumented Workers Author:Jeb Bush
“Because I'm 44, I feel kind of lucky that I lived through this period where I started my career where there was no Internet at all, and now when I finish it, there will be nothing but the Internet.” FeelsKindCareersInternetPeriodsLucky Author:Chuck Klosterman
“I went through a period when I was about 19 where I'd go tanning with my boyfriend in tanning beds. Yes, this was actually a thing we used to do together. They were not my friend. I had no idea what I was doing. We all went in the early 2000s. Needless to say, I don't go anymore. If I need a quick fix, I get a spray tan - though it's never a good idea for me with my fair skin.” IfsNeedsIdeasTogetherUsedPeriodsBedMy FriendsFairsSkinsNo IdeaGood IdeasSprayMy BoyfriendQuick FixesTanningTanning Beds Author:Brittany Snow
“Every possible opinion is authored about everything. What's going to eventually happen is someone will look back on this period and have to sift through it. The overwhelming majority of those opinions are going to be ignored, because if every opinion is being offered, really no opinion is being offered.” IfsLooksHappensOpinionPeriodsMajorityOverwhelmingIgnored Author:Chuck Klosterman
“The 80s were deranged. People had all these liberties all of a sudden and all the freedom in the world, the Less Than Zero sort of themes that came from that period, I think electronic music works very well for that whole idiom.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsWholeLibertyPeriodsThemeZero80sElectronic MusicIdiomDerangedLess Than Zero Author:Sam de Jong