Major RELIGIONS are examples of 'noble LIES' aimed at UPLIFTING HUMAN stature.

Terry Gilliam has directed some of the BEST examples of what I LIKE to see in a FILM - one of them being 'Baron Munchausen.'

If you only have 10 EXAMPLES of something, it's GOING to be hard to MAKE DEEP learning work. If you have 100,000 things you care about, records or whatever, that's the KIND of scale where you should really start thinking about these kinds of techniques.

There are many examples in our HISTORY of overheated rhetoric LEADING to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-AMERICAN Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots LIKE everyone else.

Being in France MEANS that I am SURROUNDED by EXAMPLES of nationalised services that work.

My GOAL is that a girl will watch 'The Martian' or 'Interstellar' and think, 'I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.' It's important to show POWERFUL WOMEN who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples.

The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were OVERLOOKED in their TIME not only because their work didn't FIT neatly into potted CATEGORIES but also because they AVOIDED the self-promotional efforts of their peers.

The UN Commission on Human RIGHTS, WHOSE membership in recent YEARS has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food SCANDAL, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.