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When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it.

When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.

My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

I wish I were taller and thinner but the hair you can do something about.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.