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Science fictions are suppressed only when likely to contribute more knowledge and freedom than the defensive orthodoxies they challenge.
I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.
Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.
The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.
The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.
I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really.
The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime.
It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.
If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.
I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
If I have to, I will use one challenge after another to dismantle governmental operations that I consider violations of the Constitution.
The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.
Perhaps we underestimated the challenges in Afghanistan in the past. That's why we are now strengthening and intensifying our commitment.
Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to.
Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
The biggest challenge for newspapers has been that the public has far more choices for news, information, and diversion than in the past.
Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.
We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us.
We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.
Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.
We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.
It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.
I didn't want to make teenage comedies, and I didn't want to make really trashy films. I wanted to make films that were a bit challenging.
I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present
Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.
The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.
I'm someone who likes to try new things and take on new challenges. I love making movies, but TV is also great. I really enjoy doing both.
What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.
The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling.
I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.
Embrace your constraints. They are provocative. They are challenging. They wake you up. They make you more creative. They make you better.
There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.
So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.
You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism.
I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.
I never avoid something that challenges my guts and my heart. While I might occasionally puke my guts out, I have never puked my heart out.
There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a pickup truck.
I'm always interested in finding new aesthetic problems to deal with and challenge myself, even if the aesthetic problem is one of content.
I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.
I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.
I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.
If you're not intimidated or maybe a little weary of taking on a role, then it may not be challenging enough and it may not be worth doing.
The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.