I was a graduate student in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan called for the CONSTRUCTION of a new space station. I KNEW then that I WANTED to apply for the astronaut program, and this was an EXCITING development.

Sybil's my WIFE, and on the first day of OCTOBER, that's the first TIME I knew Ross was going to run.

I knew I was in CHARGE when with the ball. But on the toughest defenders I faced, I would SAY that my AFRICAN brothers were the ones. We have the same MENTALITY and thought the same way. Osei Kuffour was the toughest of them all.

Once I had SEEN 'Journey to ITALY,' I KNEW that, even if I were NEVER to make movies, I COULD make them.

Most people I know think that I'm crazy - but anybody who actually knew Billy Thorpe didn't think that. When I was a YOUNG kid GROWING up in Adelaide, he was a big POP star - a well-dressed, nice young guy seen on television every week. Mums LIKED him.

Most of 'All Hail WEST Texas' was written during orientation at a new JOB I had. I had basically worked this job before, I KNEW this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the MARGINS of all the Xeroxed material.

All THING I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I KNOW I know, I know the LESS.

When I turned 40, I invited Johnny Cash to my party, even though I knew there was gonna be 200 PEOPLE roasting a pig and wild as can be. He didn't come, but the next day, I got a bowl of chili he'd made and a note that said, 'John, I'd LOVE to come to your party, but that would MEAN I would have to LEAVE my HOUSE.'

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate WITHOUT fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American POLITICS would be the ones who DARE to get along?

Everything I've DONE has had PURPOSE and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I KNEW how. Maybe that's not the PERFECT way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it.

When I WROTE my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the squiggly 'E.' I WANTED, from an early AGE, to be a writer, and that NAME - that E - was a WAY of pretending I knew how to do it.

Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six CENTURIES is a long TIME to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her FAMILY and FRIENDS, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.

I KNEW JOE Strummer BACK in the DAYS before he formed the CLASH.