African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.
In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
I was signed when I was 19 years old, in 1980. I went to Germany and France. Seeing the world at that time was just an awesome experience for a teenager.
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became a stifling experience. I was happy it ended.
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.
Airline food is cooked in an oven and then kept warm. Space station food is often cooked in an oven and then thermo-stabilised, irradiated or dehydrated and then stored for a year or two before you even get to it.
For eight-and-a-half years, I was just watching movies, and just staying in bed and just eating food and just, you know, being just miserable.
Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.
I'm just kind of taking a break now and enjoying the freedom of making my own choices. When you're on a television show for six years, they run your schedule.
Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.
Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.
When I was about 12 years old, I knew I had to take the game more seriously if I wanted to be able to provide for my family.
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
