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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.
Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.
I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.
What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.
Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.
I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.
Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.
I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.
Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.
