Thicc-hot, cute, describing a person. Example: "She thicc."

Deadass-an emphasis on seriously. Example: "Deadass, this is the best meal I've ever had."

AF-acronym, stands for 'as f*ck' Example: "I'm tired AF."

Tea-gossip. Example: "Spill the tea."

Sis-sister. Example: "Love you, sis!"

RIP-if something bad happens, you would say RIP, you're not actually telling them to rest in peace. Example: "My phone broke." "RIP."

Hella-really, used when describing something or someone. Example: "She's hella weird."

OD-Over Doing It. Example: "Let's spit in her food." "Nah, that's OD."

Highkey-obvious. Example: "Highkey, everyone knows she's faking."

Lowkey-not obvious. Example: "Lowkey, she's so smart."

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

I've learned that you really cannot judge a book by its cover.

I don't want to fight old battles. I want to fight new ones.

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.

People share everything on Facebook. That can be a very good thing or a very noisy thing. With Foursquare, people know that they're getting information specifically about a place, advice about where they are and what they could be doing. It's a very filtered view of the world.

Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.

The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.

I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

You gotta strike while the iron's hot.

The 'indistinguishable from magic' thing is highly dependent on where a viewer is looking from and not something intrinsic to any particular sort of tech.

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here.

Milan is beautiful in fog, like a woman with a veil.

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

Planned change is good. It is being the best, giving your best, and doing your best-on purpose.

After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.