Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.
One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
First time I ever played a bad guy. I didn't want to do it. I got stuck in bad guys for 13 years after that.
I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.
I've been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds - and I don't mean it to sound - every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.
The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.
Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun.
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.
I was born in 1960, and space theory, especially in the last part of that time and going into the '70s, space was very relevant at that time. It was on television - all the experiments, the moon landings, everything like that.
So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
Sometimes spending time with someone who is perceived as 'successful' can make us feel less successful.
I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.
I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly making a choice.
