I was the guy who didn't get a cool little apartment. I took one for the team. I liked having the place we could make noise in, the place that could be the center of the music. I sat down and calculated it one day, and over the years, I've had something like 38 roommates.
The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
I have to stop and think about everything I do. I'm very calculated in a lot of ways.
Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.
The beauty about my career is that none of it was really calculated.
When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.
Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.
