A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman

I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover

My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.

Aaron Spelling
Aaron Spelling

I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.

Abby Johnson
Abby Johnson

Abortion does not just hurt women. Abortion hurts a family, and it has a domino effect of hurting those related and close to those families through the grief and reality of losing a child to abortion.

Abdoulaye Wade
Abdoulaye Wade

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Banerjee

The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor.

Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr

Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

Adam F. Goldberg
Adam F. Goldberg

My brother was a huge Tim Kerr fan. He loved the way Kerr would power to the net, and he related to that playing style.

Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine

I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.

Adrienne Mayor
Adrienne Mayor

From about 700 B.C. to A.D. 500, the vast territory of Scythia, stretching from the Black Sea to China, was home to diverse but culturally related nomads. Known as Scythians to Greeks, Saka to the Persians, and Xiongnu to the Chinese, the steppe tribes were masters of horses and archery.