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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.

If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

The higher the stakes the stronger the faith.

I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

I'm the most overworked, overtrained, underpaid fighter.

I'm a big fan of Lou Reed, and I do a lot of talking through songs. It's more effective with my vocal limitations and also more powerful to slightly sing sometimes. It depends on the emotion, but I'm never going to try to compete with great singers.

So much is made about the beginnings of ballet careers, the rosebud, and then once the petals and leaves start falling off, is it beautiful anymore? Some people think it is; some people don't. The expectation is to focus on the very beautiful parts, not the ending.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

I was assistant in Edmonton with Wayne as captain, and Kevin Lowe was the other assistant.

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

Photovoltaics are a great technology for certain applications, and, in fact, we invest in photovoltaic technologies. But they're not good substitutes for grid electricity.

Protecting yourself is very challenging in the hostile environment of the Internet. Imagine a global environment where an unscrupulous person from the other side of the planet can probe your computer for weaknesses and exploit them to gain access to your most sensitive secrets.

Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations.

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.