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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.

There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games.

Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.

I love New York. I love working here.

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

Why don't you bring your face up here and let me punch it? Then you can tell me (if I'm stronger).

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.

I don't know the answer to that question. I don't think it matters to the fundamental question here because at bottom, this president believes in non-discrimination.

But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

I have a beautiful family. I want to be here, for my family.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?