Behind the man is the Tree of Life bearing twelve fruits and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman the serpent is twining round it.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so presumably knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability judgment and knowledge but above all a passion for service.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows so does the shore of our ignorance.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos Lady Amos went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

I have had national security background 10 years on the Intelligence Committee the last two years as chair.

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded together around the Hill blackening the ground that you begin to see the whole beast and now you observe it thinking planning calculating. It is an intelligence a kind of live computer with crawling bits for its wits.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

I think the end goal hopefully is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational most dedicated most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground part playground. We clarify amplify and glorify the game with our footage the narration and that music and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are but the music isn't.

A human being has so many skins inside covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things but we don't know ourselves! Why thirty or forty skins or hides as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic post-comet post-whatever it was so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

I mean it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes 'I've got this great game of pretend ' and you play... As an actor getting to play getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything but I wanted to be an actress.

They seem much rarer now those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover I buy it if I like the name of the band anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.