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It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

They gobbled the shrimp dumplings. From the first time they’d seen the sheer size of the meat through the translucent wrapper, they’d taken vows to be regulars. The pork sui mai was the next to be devoured. They savored in silence, except for the slurping of the stir-fried clams in black-bean sauce.

People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

I loved Steve Martin when I was younger, in the '70s.

My grandmother was whip smart as well as an incredible athlete. She played tennis in her sari, cheered on the Indian team in cricket matches, and tried to convince us that her made-up words were real so she could win a Scrabble game.

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

I played Jonathan Livingston Seagull in a musical version of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull' in Austin, TX. It was pretty special.

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

Football is more verbal in Holland, but there is a different approach in England.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

No matter the event, a Super Bowl, an NFL game, a rank-and-file golf tournament, there is a demand when you are live and exposed to try to get it right and do justice to the event. That's the way I have always approached it.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

I was a librarian.

My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.

You always have years when you go through transition and the side needs to be rebuilt. Or you have changes in terms of managers.

By curious accident of history and geography, the world's major energy resources are located pretty much in Shiite regions. They're a minority in the Middle East, but they happen to be where the oil is, right around the northern part of the Gulf.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.