'Boldly going where hundreds have gone before' does not make headlines.
I think bathrooms are where everyone bonds. That is the bonding place.
I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
I literally worked from the bottom up to where I am now.
I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.
In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.
Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.
I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
I was raised in a super-sheltered atmosphere where we didn't watch anything besides Trinity Broadcasting Network - which was called TBN - or the Fox News channel.
In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued my close collaboration with Charles Gilbert on the circuitry of primary visual cortex.
I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that's where I really mastered what I was doing.
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging.
Turner Broadcasting went from a very entrepreneurial, risk-taking company where I had a tremendous amount of freedom and autonomy to a corporate, bureaucratic nightmare.
