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People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face.

The damaged wealthy hero is actually a hugely common trope in romance, and alpha heroes are very common in romance.

The over-riding reality is that I am just not wealthy enough to own Newcastle.

If I was a wealthy foreigner I wouldn't want to invest in Italy because there are so many uncertainties, all the scandals related to corruption and match-fixing.

An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.

Film is such a powerful medium. It's like a weapon and I think you have a duty to self-censor.

Swearing's my release. It's the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.

Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

I know people get upset and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon'. But who needs an assault weapon? Like, really, unless you're carrying out an assault.

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

The media has for us a fundamental priority because it is a weapon for the ideological struggle and a weapon to express to the people the hope that we all have.

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.

I was lucky because when I'd done 'Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,' I had to have extensive weapons training.

My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

I know we don't need automatic weapons, but the question may boil down to what is an automatic weapon.

When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these things delight me as they seem to delight some of our officials, but they are certainly impressive.

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.