Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement whether it's directed towards the environment poverty water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Being in the design industry I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984 when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
Disease insanity and death were the angels that attended my cradle and since then have followed me throughout my life.
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
You know sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And you know the group tended to include everyone.
Lucy took care of me on the set and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.
I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night and it made me see how much she really meant to me.
Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
I think it's brought the world a lot closer together and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then again television at its best is magnificent.
What the mass media offers is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.
You look at the steamboat the railroad the car the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
After all my possessions had been burned God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.