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Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

I could stay in Germany and start my coaching career there. I did not want to.

We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.

So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers.

Well, I mean, Congress did originally set the formula for the state grants, and they guaranteed every state a minimum formula. So that was a congressional decision.

When I did it, I was a starving musician in London in a basement flat, but a simple tune with the right singer or the right situation can become very well liked and accepted. I'm only too pleased to say it happened with that one.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people - not a large group, but quite a few people - who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde!

I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon.

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.

This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.

I never did anything about my stardom, it never meant anything to me.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.

They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his.