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Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Have you ever heard of the book 'Freakonomics?' So there's these two economics professors, and they're really interesting guys, and they wrote these books. And it's really all about sort of false thinking. They try to go in and look at a number of different phenomenon.

Profiles aren't journalism.

I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

For me, when I go in to write a profile, and no ground rules are laid down, and I'm there to write an on-the-record profile and cover readings while in the room, then that means it's on the record.

I love to read profiles about people, but I'm interested in their processes. I only ever do them for newspapers that I love.

I read a lot of books about psychopaths. I read a wonderful book Amy Hempel gave me about the guy who created criminal profiling - a fascinating book, 'Mind Hunter.'

We've done education nonprofit through our history, and maybe the profit motive will be helpful.

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

After the success of 'Smokey,' my profit participation only went up on future movies I directed.

You don't have to have the capitalistic profit motive philosophy.

If we want, we can be profitable, but we are focusing on growth. We don't comment on profitability, but we do look at it internally. And many of our Ola cities are profitable. But our focus across all cities is growth.

Knopf is solidly profitable, and that is how I intend to keep it.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.

The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

Being a part of '12 Years a Slave' has been one of the most profound experiences of my life.

'Handmaid's' is the most profound television I've had the privilege to be a part of.

I prefer my partner to have profound, deep intellect, a profound education, but where their education comes from is no preference of my own.