This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

This is a much more fitting interpretation of the book than its modern interpretation.

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.

I think, in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

Irrelevant religion pleads legitimacy.

I was so results-oriented.

I won't be training at 60 years old, because I want to do something else in my life.

I want to do right, apart from my gender - I want to do right as a campaign manager.

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel.

I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.

The only way round is through.

In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.

If your job all day is disallowing insurance claims, you can still spend an evening playing games with your friends, and you can be faced with threats and puzzles that are far more exciting than anything you've ever imagined facing at work.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

In America, celebrities who go to see your show will come backstage and introduce themselves. Meeting Annette Bening and Ethan Hawke that way was amazing, but when Tom Hanks came, it was really special - I've loved him since I first saw him in 'Big!'

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

I do know that Syria never will recognize Lebanon as an independent country, and the declaration of independence of Lebanon took place in 1943. Syria never - Syria never have recognized Lebanon. They regard Lebanon as part of Syria.

Women don't try to use me.

It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

You bring in gambling into a major population base and the more people you have going into a casino the more people you have hooked on gambling.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.