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seguirÉ mis instintos serÉ yo para bien o para mal y verÉ cuÁl serÁ el resultado. mientras viva, escucharÉ las cascadas, las aves y el viento cantar. interpretarÉ las rocas aprenderÉ el lenguaje de las inundaciones, tempestades y avalanchas. me familiarizarÉ con los glacias y los jardines silvestres, y me acercarÉ lo mÁs posible al corazÓn del mundo. john muir dijo una vez: "saliendo al mundo natural en realidad entrÓ en mj". Él definiÓ en esa frase lo que debe ser el ser humano. porque creo que nacemos perdidos y permanecemos perdidos hasta que, nos despojamos de la concha que creemos que somos de todas las pre-concepciones de quien creemos que somos y nos exponemos al gran poder del mundo natural. y dejamos que ese poder nos cambie de forma, asj como ha cambiado la forma de las rocas del valle de yosemite. muir sentja que habja descubierto algo mÁs: su propio destino. el adusto alpinista de ojos azules y largos bigotes se dedicÓ a entender la naturaleza, y a enseÑar a otros las lecciones que habja aprendido. si yosemite fuera un templo, Él serja su
seguirÉ mis instintos serÉ yo para bien o para mal y verÉ cuÁl serÁ el resultado. mientras viva, escucharÉ las cascadas, las aves y el viento cantar. interpretarÉ las rocas aprenderÉ el lenguaje de las inundaciones, tempestades y avalanchas. me familiarizarÉ con los glacias y los jardines silvestres, y me acercarÉ lo mÁs posible al corazÓn del mundo. john muir dijo una vez: "saliendo al mundo natural en realidad entrÓ en mj". Él definiÓ en esa frase lo que debe ser el...
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just absolutely amazing how the creative and intellectual capabilities of yo brain and mind is limited after aertain critical period. anthis is why the mozarts of this world started out early in order to reach this extraordinary skill thatevelop so you can show, for example, that the hand representation-- particularly for the left hand, which is the fingering on a violin, for example-- has a large representation in professional violinists than people who don't play any instrument whatsoever. and if you start at an early age off much larger representation than a professional musician who started later. >> is there anything happening to figure out how to make... to overcome this obvious reality of the decline of plasticity and the ability to absorb new. that >> that's a very, very good question. it's one of the facts of life that the brain goes through a maturational process which is the moment we have very little control of. >> rose: i gets smaller, too, does it not? >> loss of connections with time, that's absolutely true. and certainly as you age there's a further loss of connections
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. >> rose: what else do yo believe in like that? like faith. >> friendship, the per of friendship. >> i believe in love, in odness, i beeve in all those things that can't be dem straited or squared at any significant way. and i actually believe that my scientific friends believe far more than they can prove. >> rose: sometimes they say that faith begins where sciee cannot prove. >> well, i'm not sure that's necessarily true because that's sort of the god of the gaps. once you begin to explain something then that's one less bit of god around. no, i don't believe that. i believe that faith is a critical ingredient in science. i mean that scientist operate on the hypothesis that there is such a thing as truth there is such a thing as verify ability, that there is such a thing as the result of a particular kind of process. and that is-- i know devout scientists say i don't believe in god, i do believe scientific meth, scientific meth may very well have a hat on and cape just like the "wizard of oz". without knows. so i don't see any nat
. >> rose: what else do yo believe in like that? like faith. >> friendship, the per of friendship. >> i believe in love, in odness, i beeve in all those things that can't be dem straited or squared at any significant way. and i actually believe that my scientific friends believe far more than they can prove. >> rose: sometimes they say that faith begins where sciee cannot prove. >> well, i'm not sure that's necessarily true because that's sort of the god of the...
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yo have the child aor who has noldpour p, urse is all from the art. it demands that you respond that way. then, you have the 3d cameras. it was a tight rope. you could never explain. you could never comment, you could never demonstrate. tavis: wind use it -- when you said that martin scorsese demands a certain things from you, what do you mean from that? >> i don't mean that he literally asked you for it but he is such a tender, intelligent, pure guy but you have no choice but to get out of the corner and offer him the truth. this is the work of every actor he has worked with. you always find that they have given their best performance for marty. once marty -- i can call him marty, isn't that wonderful? once you have been given the role, you can relax and you don't have to audition any more. you don't have to demonstrate any more. you don't have to go after him with your actors begging bowl. he has seen everything. once he said action, you are free to be. you are not being tested, he is so secure in his craft and so confident in his craft that he know
yo have the child aor who has noldpour p, urse is all from the art. it demands that you respond that way. then, you have the 3d cameras. it was a tight rope. you could never explain. you could never comment, you could never demonstrate. tavis: wind use it -- when you said that martin scorsese demands a certain things from you, what do you mean from that? >> i don't mean that he literally asked you for it but he is such a tender, intelligent, pure guy but you have no choice but to get out...
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yo go to nba games and at some point somebody will play the song. your stuff is everywhere. we know that wonderful musical gift you have had for your entire life. are you the on-your the only person i know who have that voice and made it work for you. had a surgery that went wrong, that made you sound this way. this voice is as much of signature, this raspy, rich, the tones and timbre. >> get out of here. tavis: that voice is a part of you as day-o was back in the day. embroidered -- how embittered were you that that voice was taken away from you? >> the voice was taken away from me before the surgery. i cannot blame the loss of the voice on the surgery. describe that to other things. misuse of the instrument. i pushed myself beyond my physical capacity, my ability. when you look at louis armstrong, ray charles, cocker, all the great singers that had these sounds, i was in great company. i mean, look at what they did. i do not profess to have their gift. i certainly have their sound. my problem was i did not come from any specific school of musical tradition. i had to make a
yo go to nba games and at some point somebody will play the song. your stuff is everywhere. we know that wonderful musical gift you have had for your entire life. are you the on-your the only person i know who have that voice and made it work for you. had a surgery that went wrong, that made you sound this way. this voice is as much of signature, this raspy, rich, the tones and timbre. >> get out of here. tavis: that voice is a part of you as day-o was back in the day. embroidered -- how...
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yes, they know these are endemic problems and they're engaged in the various efforts to are, yo know, keep country as float. but they need for not a huge meltdown to happen anywhere near the election in november. and that's now what our policy is going to be all about. >> hmmmm. >> when you looked at this president, we've had conversations with him, we've been as he met with columnist and perhaps more, what, how is your assessment of him changed? what has he not been able to do that he thought in all the u for of 2008 he might be able to do. >> voted for him for one reason. i thought he would change the polls, not read the polls. i thought he had that ability to articulate and galvanize a transformational agenda on some rlly key things, energy, debt, deficit, et cetera. >> rose: and the fact that he didn't is because he didn't have the -- >> i don't want to-- let's store of-- sort of-- i think he deserves and has not ceived the credit he deserves frojust prevting us from going into depression, from what he inhered i think extending health care to millions more americans and even thoug
yes, they know these are endemic problems and they're engaged in the various efforts to are, yo know, keep country as float. but they need for not a huge meltdown to happen anywhere near the election in november. and that's now what our policy is going to be all about. >> hmmmm. >> when you looked at this president, we've had conversations with him, we've been as he met with columnist and perhaps more, what, how is your assessment of him changed? what has he not been able to do that...
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. >>> there are different ways yo. win. questions we will be able to answer. the larpg questions, why gravity is weak. that could tell it's a depp and fundmental space. are in similaritifull symmetrie. the distanltd energy scales you can ask what is gravity fundmently? what is myspace and time fundmently? and there are questionse will never answer are there other inn vergs? pgh explain to me what do we mean by time tramp. >> what we meany time tramp is going bar back backwards in timf movies like time trample. when you see a me with time travel it doesn't make sense. >> zplcialghts from physic othyo back and forward in. in fact you may be able to go in different directions but the quo is karcit's hard to make sense . at a more detailed level it's hart to see. >>> here is another s nsteinboo. inn stiefn said the most income prehenlsabilitpreacial mings tea reasonably wonderful thing. it comes up a lot. it's worth predictions that work. it's a book books. what is the question i would like to know the eafns to. what are th limits. pgh some team say that the ecirc
. >>> there are different ways yo. win. questions we will be able to answer. the larpg questions, why gravity is weak. that could tell it's a depp and fundmental space. are in similaritifull symmetrie. the distanltd energy scales you can ask what is gravity fundmently? what is myspace and time fundmently? and there are questionse will never answer are there other inn vergs? pgh explain to me what do we mean by time tramp. >> what we meany time tramp is going bar back backwards in...
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you think out loud and you realize yo what you don't know. >> and if it's tested you knoww. >>> you need to master facts an. d the unfortunate conscious is weaving things together. >> it's the most fascination. >> be aware of generational bia. >> it has to do with parents. >> this is a sense thateverythi. it struck me afternoon people scarccan make their own evaluats mple people in their 70s or 80s gru up in hardship. and man people grew up in the 50s and 50s. these young men they did physical labor. and threaten they come of age in the 50s and 60s times of great abundance. when they were writing about that peerld period of that lifed they moved and no matter where they moved to there will be a job. i will move to phoenix. i will find a job. >> but then they look at today'i really think, i don't care what their poll six is. i think something has gone torturing. i don't know i struggle with their on how much to worry about the influence on the couple tur. >> this is the idea of dumpingd? -- dumbing down. >> tease about brushing yourtees rchlt it's the party and the rap lifestyle. should i
you think out loud and you realize yo what you don't know. >> and if it's tested you knoww. >>> you need to master facts an. d the unfortunate conscious is weaving things together. >> it's the most fascination. >> be aware of generational bia. >> it has to do with parents. >> this is a sense thateverythi. it struck me afternoon people scarccan make their own evaluats mple people in their 70s or 80s gru up in hardship. and man people grew up in the 50s and...
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can take it down, you can yours common sense, you can make it into something which is just between yo and the lens and so on but there it requires an audience. >> charlie: what is beckett telling us about a man at 69 who on his birthday listens to tapes and then there one on his 39th birthday which reminds him of a romance. >> well, he's talking about a man who makes a fatal mistake and talking about regret and remorse and to a certain extt anger. so in this production i'm trying to veer away fro too much straight anger becauset's such a boring emotion. >> charlie: straight anger is boring in obvious and straight forward. >> you think this is the time when he shouts. let me walk out. i'm more interested in remorse and regret and in this particular case and this is a man who's chosen to live for his art without love. really i think what beckett is saying is it's not a great choice. >> charlie: to choose art over love. >> hm mm-hmm. >> charlie: are i mutually exclusive? >> i'm pretty sure separate. >> charlie: it's interesting as what happens here cause you've got a tape speaking as wel
can take it down, you can yours common sense, you can make it into something which is just between yo and the lens and so on but there it requires an audience. >> charlie: what is beckett telling us about a man at 69 who on his birthday listens to tapes and then there one on his 39th birthday which reminds him of a romance. >> well, he's talking about a man who makes a fatal mistake and talking about regret and remorse and to a certain extt anger. so in this production i'm trying to...
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. >> and have yo the fighters from benghazi and they're saying go home. i don't know what's going happen. >> charlie: but real competition among competing parties on the same page about over throwing khadafi. >> one of the common threads is that everybody knew what they were against. that was clear particularly where the autocracy was against the leaders and no one knew what it was for with the exception of the muslim brotherhood. >> crlie: syria how long can asad stay in power? >> we talked to the syrian immigire be in power? >> charlie: somebody came in. >> it won't happen here. >> charlie: does that lead to the conclusion he'll be able to tough it out as long as there's intervention from outside. >> in syria what the arab league has done in getting in strong on sanctions and making him syria a p pariah it wouldn't have happened. >> charlie: bahrain remains to be seen. >> there's a change in the arab world and some places want to hang on and where the government is powerful and control over the people. i do think syria is the place where 're witnessing
. >> and have yo the fighters from benghazi and they're saying go home. i don't know what's going happen. >> charlie: but real competition among competing parties on the same page about over throwing khadafi. >> one of the common threads is that everybody knew what they were against. that was clear particularly where the autocracy was against the leaders and no one knew what it was for with the exception of the muslim brotherhood. >> crlie: syria how long can asad stay...
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be not lost so poorly in yo thoughts. >> in your new life how are you going to find what it is you most wanto do. >> with patience, i think i need to put a gap between... >> rose: shakespeare? >> not necessarily shakespeare but perhaps between running a major iconic arts organization and the next thing that i do. >> the me de man on your time to do that, between management, pure management and art... >> yeah, it's a hard thing to do to keep moving forward as an artist while addressing the queue of people needing answers. >> exactly. >> it... yeah, it is demanding. it is demanding. and i'm looking forward to being the irresponsible one for a while. >> rose: (laughs) it's not my job. >> exactly. i have loved running the r.s.c. i have loved being the father of a communy. it's been an enormous privilege and, of course, you are given... for everything you give you get back ten times. >> rose: because what it tells you on life and what it tells you about... >> just the generosity of people's hearts and what they give as artists and as people ck to you who are maybe constantly feeling sorry fo
be not lost so poorly in yo thoughts. >> in your new life how are you going to find what it is you most wanto do. >> with patience, i think i need to put a gap between... >> rose: shakespeare? >> not necessarily shakespeare but perhaps between running a major iconic arts organization and the next thing that i do. >> the me de man on your time to do that, between management, pure management and art... >> yeah, it's a hard thing to do to keep moving forward as...
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. >> rose: what brought yo to play the role? a director? >> joe right, the director, had a fantastic vision of how to take a well-known and much loved and to put a really... i don't want to give too much awa. rticular and stiltized and elegant take on it. he cast a wonderful cast and it had a phenomenal adaptation by tom stoppard. >> rose: oh, wow! set in the same time? >> set in the sa time and in russia. but we've not left a studio in london yet. that's all i can say. >> rose: "sherlock holmes." how do you see dr. watn? >> well, it's been an interesting experience because, of course, i think like eryone elsehen theypproached me three years ago i saw dr. watson... i didn't know the books, i have to be honest. i'd seen a couple of the t.v. shows. i always saw dr. watson as the bumbling slightly foolish sidekick and certainly the elder sidekick and the concept always was well, go back to the books and we think there's a misinterpretation. that, in fact, they're missing the energy of watson and, indeed of holmes. the physicality of watson. th
. >> rose: what brought yo to play the role? a director? >> joe right, the director, had a fantastic vision of how to take a well-known and much loved and to put a really... i don't want to give too much awa. rticular and stiltized and elegant take on it. he cast a wonderful cast and it had a phenomenal adaptation by tom stoppard. >> rose: oh, wow! set in the same time? >> set in the sa time and in russia. but we've not left a studio in london yet. that's all i can say....
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i'm saying when he was really upset you felt that kind of anger and hey trufd towards you snrievment yo. >> charlie: you talked about the human element about the book. tell me abt that. >> dealing with this time and place. they started in actually, we started the film like it was a new idea. they started in the late 90's implementing these ideas and trying them out. i was arguing against any kind of back story and family story. and bennett very wisely was adamant about grounding him in that way, i guess. i think bennett -- >> with his daughter. >> yes, could explain it better. >> charlie: what did you think was nessary for the film to have? >> i like sports movies. i think that good sports movies never really are about sports at the end of the day. there was always something else there. what attract me to the film in the first place were these more personal issues. and how do you weave these things together and how do you ma the you know. >> charlie: war movies are like that too. in the end it's about relationships and courage and whole set of values rather has not who won that battle a
i'm saying when he was really upset you felt that kind of anger and hey trufd towards you snrievment yo. >> charlie: you talked about the human element about the book. tell me abt that. >> dealing with this time and place. they started in actually, we started the film like it was a new idea. they started in the late 90's implementing these ideas and trying them out. i was arguing against any kind of back story and family story. and bennett very wisely was adamant about grounding him...
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and i saw in his eyes, yo know, history, big history ofumanity, sometimes relies on little detail, man-to-man emotions, and so on. >> this may have been one of those moments. >> it might be. it might be. it might have been. i don't know because we never did the debriefing, sarkozy and me about all these. >> he never reflected to new whatever conversations you've had with him about isn't that strange, bernard, that we are ending up here on the same side trying to do something, because you happen to be there. and because you made this connection between those rebels and the government and a person who had the capacity to do something. never a reflection, never a personaleflection about we find ourselve on the same field, the same field of conflict. >> no, because frankly -- >> there is no poetry in his soul. >> we met so many, we met, i think, 35 or 40 times. >> right, that's my point. >> over all that time ere was never a reflection on what ts is about. >> and strangely enough it was a new sarkozy it was a new sarkozy. not so open to personnel feelings. the 40 times we met or spoke on the phon
and i saw in his eyes, yo know, history, big history ofumanity, sometimes relies on little detail, man-to-man emotions, and so on. >> this may have been one of those moments. >> it might be. it might be. it might have been. i don't know because we never did the debriefing, sarkozy and me about all these. >> he never reflected to new whatever conversations you've had with him about isn't that strange, bernard, that we are ending up here on the same side trying to do something,...
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stories often in the united states, sometimes in europe, for example, oh, the future will be just like yo iphone. itill be designed by a until california and assembled in china. in other words, they can't really do innovation. >> rose: they can't have the idea. >> tt's not true anymore. measurably it's not true because if you look at the number of patents that are granted every year internationally, japan has been in the lead for some time. and korea is gaining. >> rose: japan stumbled. why did they stumble? >> that's an interesting question because in a way it's tempting to say well, that's at will happen to china, too. but i think japan's troubles is peculiar to japan. it's a population that has aged faster than anywhere else, partly because of the success of their post-war welfare state and because they don't have immigration to speak of. so you have rapid aging combined of course, with institutions that they had copyd from the west, including a welfare state that ultimately has been very hard to maintain with this aging population structure. there were mistakes in the banking system i
stories often in the united states, sometimes in europe, for example, oh, the future will be just like yo iphone. itill be designed by a until california and assembled in china. in other words, they can't really do innovation. >> rose: they can't have the idea. >> tt's not true anymore. measurably it's not true because if you look at the number of patents that are granted every year internationally, japan has been in the lead for some time. and korea is gaining. >> rose: japan...
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and he said he actually said that tow yo in an earlier draft when he read the script but after seeing he just said "but it doesn't matter." and he also said "it's hard to make death entertaining." he said "but you did it. you did it." so he enjoyed it. >> rose: is there any part of the african american community saying "this is our man, this is dr. king. we don't want anything. don't mess with dr. king." >> absolutely. i remember during previews there was a young woman who got so upset that the play was funny. like this is too serious to be... we can't be laughing at this. this is his last night on earth. but laughter is a release, you know? we laugh out of nervousness. and i think that a play needs to be entertaining but i think this particular play is edu-taining. you learn things at the end of the day. >> and at the end of the day audiences always have expectations before they see a play so there's always conversation outside of the thet cher we can't control no matt what the play is. so it's after you see the play, what's the response then? and i can't tell how many people come to
and he said he actually said that tow yo in an earlier draft when he read the script but after seeing he just said "but it doesn't matter." and he also said "it's hard to make death entertaining." he said "but you did it. you did it." so he enjoyed it. >> rose: is there any part of the african american community saying "this is our man, this is dr. king. we don't want anything. don't mess with dr. king." >> absolutely. i remember during...
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what influence did chef and would yo... what did your church have to do with being a missionary? >> my mom d a big influence in my life. i got the chance to work on her campaign for senate. she was running against an american institution, phillip hart, a wonderful man. she was unsuccessful in her bid but i learned from that exrience, watched her campaign hard. and knew that she was a person who, like my dad, has deep and abiding affection for this country and its principles. that's what i learned from my parents was how committed they were to the vision of the founding fathers of this country. providing for us not just political freedom but personal freedom. the right to choose our course in life. the right to achieve whatever our dreams might lead us to regaless of the circumstances of our birth. now you mentioned my faith and my church experience. i was asked to go off and search my church as a missionary. i spent two and a halfears in france. that was a very revealing experience. charles de gaulle kicked the united states out, kicked our bases out of france. >> rose: left nato
what influence did chef and would yo... what did your church have to do with being a missionary? >> my mom d a big influence in my life. i got the chance to work on her campaign for senate. she was running against an american institution, phillip hart, a wonderful man. she was unsuccessful in her bid but i learned from that exrience, watched her campaign hard. and knew that she was a person who, like my dad, has deep and abiding affection for this country and its principles. that's what i...