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I've been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father's adding machine. Back then I'd type in an equation, the device made some cool noises, and out came my answer. I was hooked.

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class. --Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty? --No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment. --Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment. --Not in this house.

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.

I never heard the Gospel until I was 18 years old. Jesus Christ... the name was synonymous to me as the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus.

Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

When you know you haven't been connecting with, persuading, or getting through to someone, consciously pause before meeting them and say to yourself, 'During this conversation, I am committing to being present and to connecting.'

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.