I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
Success came to us at an age where we could enjoy it. We went through a lot of hard times, so we appreciate success all the more now.
Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.
I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15.
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.
Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives.
I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.
It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began to fully understand what amazing materials they were and what they could do.
Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'
I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.
My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.
If my life’s work could fit on a stamp, I’d want you to lick it before I die.
Show me how to lactate, and I’ll be the best mother a father could be.
She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.
