I did not think this doll could ever be this huge.

I did not think this doll could ever be this huge.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.

Television speeded everything up.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

There's no racism with the Internet.

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

Like I always tell people, I don't pander to any audience, but you have to play to your audience.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - the way as a writer you call out into the world and throw your words into the world. You're not praying to a god, but you're almost conjuring a reader to arrive. That's what books do: they're an invitation to readers.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it's cool.

If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like real estate because I am the boss.

Everybody wants to be perfect.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

Massage is the answer...Who cares what the question is!

I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

Thoughts not only manifest into reality, they define it.

Nature is where it all begins for the Hawaiians. In fact they call themselves keiki o ka aina children of the land.

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish

Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

I try not to judge because I've been judged a heck of a lot, and it don't feel nice.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight its the size of the fight in the dog.