We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
I reread Mesrine's book every year because the way the story is told is fascinating. Today, we don't have gangsters like Mesrine - he had humor.
Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.
In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.
I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.
I'd had a really bad car accident years ago, and basically, the ligaments in the back of my neck were ripped, and I'd never addressed that.
I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.
A broken transportation system hits Michiganders in the pocketbook. Every year, our friends and neighbors spend millions of dollars on car repairs after driving on crumbling streets.
I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.
I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.
I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
