Were Quotes

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced.

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

Men were never expected to be monogamous.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

All men are not created equal but should be treated as though they were under the law.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.

I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.