Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in a small city, and it could result in a draw – the excitement, the spirit, the atmosphere – that’s the real beauty of football in England. Roman Abramovich Read Quote
The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative – things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection? Robert Pozen Read Quote
I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for ‘On Harvard Time,’ which was a student TV show trying to be ‘The Daily Show.’ And I wrote a humor column for ‘The Crimson’ starting my sophomore year. Alexandra Petri Read Quote
Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland. Jeremy Corbyn Read Quote
It’s damage to a nerve. It pretty much shut down the whole lower part of my left leg. I wasn’t able to step anymore. It’s called foot drop – basically, you can’t lift your foot. Michael Chandler Read Quote
Sometimes when you’re relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there’s more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. Ice Cube Read Quote
The only real difference between shooting ‘Firefly’ and ‘Serenity’ was that on ‘Serenity,’ we had a lot more freedom with time. When you’re shooting a television show, you usually have anywhere between six and nine pages of script to shoot a day, and only twelve hours to do it. But with ‘Serenity,’ we could shoot one scene all day long. Jewel Staite Read Quote
