I must try and
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Superpower
I genuinely think I
I genuinely think I have a hugging superpower. I’m starting to master the transformative hug. I have a strange memory ability. There’s a lot of information that I don’t cognitively know, but that seems to rise up at moments of need. That feels like a superpower. Something that nobody knows about me is that I … Read more
If there’s any sort
If there’s any sort of superpower we desperately need right now, it’s this transcendental force that reminds us of union and connection. I think that superhero stories come from somewhere. We make these aspirational images, to remind us that we have this capacity in ourselves already. I think that electricity can run through disconnected wires. … Read more
I always at home
I always at home as a kid tried to move something with your hand and it doesn’t move and then you get to do it in a movie. I mean my superpower is quickness but you know what I’m saying. You get a superpower and you’re like Man this is awesome. I get to pretend … Read more
It has been very
It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world’s leading economy and the world’s most respected and feared military force in the world – … Read more
Yugoslavia was a kind
Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country. Emir Kusturica
I realized that influence
I realized that influence was inextricably linked to impact — the more influence you had, the more impact you could create. . . . The ability to make things go viral felt like the closest that we could get to having a human superpower. Emerson Spartz
The police officer who
The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman – who is only a mere superhero. Eliezer Yudkowsky
And what terrifies me
And what terrifies me is that we’re entering a phase where if you start to speak about this as something that can be understood historically – without any sympathy – you are going to be thought of as unpatriotic, and you are going to be forbidden. It’s very dangerous. It is precisely incumbent on every … Read more
The tragedy of 9/11
The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake. Douglas Hurd