I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff.
Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
Much of modern molecular biology and microbiology has been based on the effort to decipher the basic code of life, which is made up of four nucleotides: adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine.
Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.
We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
The government is slowly waking up to the scale of the personal tragedy of delayed autism diagnosis.
Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
Trump's anti-China trade demagoguery may work in firing up his base, but it does a disservice to the truth.
Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.
I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
In Denmark lots of people come up to me for autographs.
Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.
I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
Europeans are easily offended by errors in their titles or full names. Their exasperation is equal to that shown by Americans when the department store fouls up their bills.
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities.
