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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse. ”
I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me. ”
I got pantsed in 'Bar Wars,' the number-one rated episode of 'Cheers' all time. I'm very proud of that. ”
When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home. ”
The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future. ”
From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free. ”
I write all the time. I always have. I can pick up my horn to warm up, and an idea will pop into my head, and I'll write it down and file it away for another time. ”
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. ”
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ”
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. ”