The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.
If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.
My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.
Many times the players get in there and it's just about as well as they could have done, and other times they get in there and they favorites and they don't win.
There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
Disasters like Oklahoma City and 9/11 were time-limited. The children who were affected psychologically could go to a place of normalcy.
When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
I've been on sets where I broke my ankle on a television show doing a stunt playing Arthur in 'Camelot.' That was because it was really rushed, and it hadn't been thought through properly.
I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.
Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced, vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open.
Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.
As an actor, when you go for auditions, there are certain roles that come along and you think, 'I really want that one,' and Prince Arthur was definitely one of those.
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.
They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.
