Quotes

'Manam' will always be close to my heart, and I will cherish the the memories of shooting with my grandfather all my life.

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

Frankly, I wasn't comfortable with the idea of showing my private life to the public.

Game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life, and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.

Without literature my life would be miserable.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

The Dominican Republic has not been known in my lifetime as having world-class academic abilities.

Bob Rondeau - he'll never know this - but he was so instrumental. He is a legend to me and had a major impact in my life.

Not everybody can see every moment of their life displayed by one set of people. It's just not going to happen.

So many people have told me that 'Wicked' is their first musical ever and that they're hooked for life. I'm like, 'Wow, you really got it right when you picked this show to be your first one.'

I had a wonderful home life. My parents are the ultimate, wonderful supporters, so there was never a moment where I felt like I had to get away.

I wouldn't be able to have the successes in my career if it weren't for the happiness in my personal life.

I don't know if I would ever truly want somebody's life in my hands. I think what these people, what doctors and nurses and public service employees do on a day-to-day basis, is unreal, and it takes a special type of person to do that - and I don't think I'm that type of person. I'm happy to play one on TV.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

I've been doing African dance all my life.

I've been struggling so long with my career that I haven't been in a position to invite a woman into my life. It would have been like, 'Hey, come live with me and my two roommates, and let's make ramen noodles tonight.'

I'm aware that beyond my own need to find a personal balance, I should be sending a signal to society as women's minister about the importance of work-life balance.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.