I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.
That's what got me through 65 years of life - my belief in God and what He's done for us and what He will do for us.
I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.
The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.
They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
