They had collaborated on the Declaration of Independence, and Adams went up to Braintree, Massachusetts And my dictum , if you can agree with the villain, then the hero really has to be on his mettle.
How do you win? We-- our official dictum is that it is OK to have an opinion.
George refused. They made a few cuts, which angered George no end. But this was his dictum . And George actually follows it more closely in his later movies than he did in "THX." Because if you look at the first few minutes of "THX,"
situation that I had in Quantico -- the description of our security problem as being not so much from outside, which is the typical technothriller, but from within. I think the dictum that I follow -- ascribe to most -- is Pogo's dictum , "We have met the enemy and he is us." And both Quantico and Mariposa are about our eternal problems. And we've really been our own worst enemies since the beginning. If you think of the worst war we ever fought,
is a legitimate and desirable goal. In addition to Tolstoy's dictum that the purpose of art is to teach us to love life, "Star Trek" has taught me something else-- that art has the power to change how we see and experience the world.
talk in that sort of way. It often, however, to me feels like we are engaging in a sort of hyperbole, and that it's probably better to embrace this Adam Smith dictum that there is much ruin in a nation. And however bad we might imagine things to be, the reality is that the country's pretty resilient. We tend to come out on the other side of these things. There's an ability to recalibrate,
we hear mention of as early as the first 10 minutes. So he's sort of started to get that dictum . But still "American Graffiti" was a very character-driven movie.
because I could imagine bigger scale things you might capture some of the information of smaller scale. Yeah. I mean there's a famous dictum that goes back to Sidney Brenner. When we deal with complex systems, biological ones, which have structure on many levels, that in order to address such problems,
So worrying is actually pointing to anxiety, worrying about are you OK in the eyes of others. And if you're not quite sure if you're OK, your brain's dictum is to figure out how to be OK. So it sends signals.
And it was only last year that the NIH said, if you're getting NIH funding, we expect you to do that. So let's hope this problem is being resolved but it remains to be seen how many people are following through on that dictum . So that was bad ingredients.
You've got thousands of pages of regulation. You've got the SEC-- remember the more thousands of pages there are, and also dictum , the more you can game the system. So the bottom line is a corporation can tell the accountant to either be aggressive, not fraudulent, middle of the road, or conservative.
Whenever we hear about a new development in science, whether it's physics, optics, chemistry, or even psychology, we figure out ways to use it in our magic, keeping one step ahead of the public and following Arthur C. Clarke's dictum , "in disguising science as magic." Magic that we now accept as part of the world of entertainment. Now, magic is a very introverted field.