As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

I enjoy watching basketball, yeah.

Wilt Chamberlain, by far, is my best basketball player. Best athlete ever.

I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.

I'll ask you if you can play some speaking roles.

I play basketball, I play soccer, I draw, uh I like girls.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

Historians spend their days engaged in the literally endless task of reshaping and expanding our view of the past, while statues are fixed and inflexible.

Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain.

Playing basketball at MSG is a lot of fun when you are winning, but when you are not, it's not fun.

Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work.

As an actor, we spend so much putting the mask on and trying to be someone you're not.

One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.

Basketball is pretty big in Latvia.

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?

To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

I can multitask.