I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
It's hard to be a son of a candidate. It's hard to be a brother of a candidate. I think it may be the hardest thing to be the dad of the candidate.
I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century.
It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.
Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.
Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
