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“It was my first action. It was nerve-wracking, being a freshman and getting into that game. It was definitely an experience -- one of the best atmospheres I've been in, ... Just to see them on TV all the time, the whole thing ... it got to me a little bit, I won't lie.”

“I had a choice to move up in a Fortune 500 company, which they put the option in front of me, or go to school. I could always go to school, but I wouldn't always have the opportunity to be a manager of 500 company. That experience was my school.”

“Of course our background is in motor sports so we have years of experience crashing cars into the wall at Indianapolis and other places. So we've tried to take our motor sports approach into the body armor field with some very different ideas.”

“The novel has one peculiarity for a school novel: It never attacks the place; it isn't an expose; it doesn't show sadistic masters or depraved students, or use any of the other school-novel sensationalistic cliches. That's because I didn't experience things like that there.”

“The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.”

“There isn't any experience like it; I was able to see how integral a role our country plays on the rest of the world. The world really looks to us as an example and I feel that we should venture out to see how the rest of the world lives.”

“I'm impressed with what they've been doing. But I think the experience still is unsatisfactory. It's a little like the proverbial dancing dog it's impressive that it can dance, but if you want a real dancing partner, you have to look somewhere else.”

“Randy adds some experience for us, so that helps. He has seen more since being injured where he knows a lot more of what he can do and can't get away with. He will definitely strengthen us at that position.”

“The state of technology (for undersea exploration) is still in its infancy, ... We have 90 years and two countries' worth of experience in space exploration -- and maybe a dozen real serious underwater habitats. A lot more manpower and GDP has gone into space exploration.”

“Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.”