Quotes About Transition

I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.

There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along?

I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to... you start to lose your memory. You start to lose your confidence. You start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me.

When you invest in something for so long and you stop and have nothing to fill that space, it can be more of a crisis of identity.

When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.

I've been really lucky that I've kind of gotten to flow from project to project, because I find it's very important that when you're on a project, you are so invested in it.

In 'Leverage,' I don't really play an insurance investigator but a man who used to be an insurance investigator.

Once I married Fernando, I became invisible.

Full circle: 2014 I go from playing on the street to getting invited to play on stage, now 2016 I'm headlining.

Social changes always involve trade-offs.

I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.

I've got my head fixed on the next part of life. I know there will be an adjusting period of just not being a rugby player for a while, and over that period I'll get my head around what the next challenge involves.

In the beginning, in school, I used to bowl medium-pace. Later, dad said that medium pacers need a proper body, and it also involves more risks of injury.

I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.

If there's another iPhone that's better, that's sad for my old iPhone. But it means we get to use a better one.

There were many things that led to the iPhone at Apple. We were searching for what to do after iPod that would make sense.

You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?'

The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

I leave Iraq gladdened by what has been accomplished and confident your future is full of hope.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

There's always a sense of, 'Oh, if I change my irons, they might not be as good or might not perform as well.'

I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10.