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In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
Most Muslims don't want to live in some Taliban-style utopia, which is what bin Laden and allied groups are offering.
As early as 1993, members of bin Laden's group had been planning an attack on the American Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
Bin Laden had come to the delusional conclusion that the United States was as weak as the Soviet Union had once been.
What did U.S. officials have to lose by saying that bin Laden was being protected by the Pakistanis, if it were true?
Miliband failed us, his Labour supporters. And Labour will now, because of him, be in a disaster zone for a long time.
How can you prevent an attack by returning foreign fighters if you are not cognizant of their names and links to ISIS?
Today, we are not likely to need to organize local militias for our defense now we have something called the Pentagon.
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
That [Pagani] Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time.
I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.
People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.
I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.
All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
Think of it as Angelina Jolie. You’ve heard she’s mad and eats nothing but wallpaper paste. But you would, wouldn’t you?
In short, the hunt for bin Laden could not have been accomplished without every form of American intelligence-gathering.
America has not traditionally been the cramped, frightened country of Trump's executive order that bans Syrian refugees.
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment...
Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.
You don't go after veterans in this country. If there's one thing that's sacrosanct, it is the American military veteran.
I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle.
I hope Stoke stay up this season, and stay up for long enough so that they can get enough money and buy some footballers.
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.
I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.
If we build three million new houses by 2020, where will we grow all the stuff needed to feed the people who live in them?
I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.
Political people give speeches and espouse positions declaring that America is the best and strongest nation in the world.
The first time I went to Fenway Park was probably 1950. It was the early '50s, and it was my father taking me to the game.
When you have a child who has special needs, you really start thinking about children across the board with special needs.
Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].
I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world.
China became the second biggest economy in the world by pegging their currency to the dollar at an artificially cheap rate.
Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him.
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias.
I was the only outsider to visit the Abbottabad compound where bin Laden lived before the Pakistani military demolished it.
'Waldo' was one episode I always felt I didn't quite crack. And weirdly, now that feels like one of the more prescient ones.
God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.
I have had an amazingly fortunate life. I'm a child from Yorkshire, which is sort of like Cleveland without the pretty bits.
His [Donald Trump]support is crossing wide swaths of the party. It`s not just the evangelicals. It`s the moderates, as well.
The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States.
'MasterChef' delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease.
I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.
The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.
American jihadists are generally motivated by a mix of factors, including dislike of U.S. foreign policy in the Muslim world.
Over the years, my husband and I have sent two dozen or more girls to college and helped them with whatever else they needed.