A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

I don't have prejudices against anybody. I have opinions, based on a lifetime's experience.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

Israel is too attached to America, too influenced by America. It should be connected to Europe. America is based on mythology - the free man, the individual, the open frontier. Europe is more conscious of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your identity through history.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

A. E. van Vogt
A. E. van Vogt

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman

Music is the only passion I shamelessly indulge in. However, for recreation I enjoy watching movies. 'Wizard of Oz' was the first film I ever saw, followed by the 'Bond' movies. I also watch a lot of World cinema through DVDs mostly brought by one of my best friends who's now based in Toronto.