"Minimization is what happens when we take the "world is flat" idea too far...and act as if people everywhere are the same (and thereby minimizing the differences)."

“The more time went by, the more something just happened, an Oh my god - I want to love someone freely and walk down the street and hold my girlfriend’s hand,”

“A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.”

“What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.”

Source : "Andrew Bogut Calls Those Who Can’t Understand His Poor Injury Luck ‘Pretty Uneducated’". sports.yahoo.com. March 27, 2012.

“And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.”

“The wonderful thing about books is that they allow us to enter imaginatively into someone else’s life. And when we do that, we learn to sympathize with other people. But the real surprise is that we also learn truths about ourselves, about our own lives, that somehow we hadn’t been able to see before.”

Source : "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

“Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.”

“From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.”

Source : "Brazil: One Man's Cup of Coffee", content.time.com. June 30, 1961.

“I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.”