Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.
I came from Winnipeg and a small-town background, and I wouldn't say a depressed area, but Winnipeg has never been a rich area like Toronto.
I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
Not only did Jesus come as a universal gift, He came as an individual offering with a personal message to each one of us.
How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.
Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.
When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting.
I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.
My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.
We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.
I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.
I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.
