And unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was not just damaged but totally destroyed.

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Although strength should fail the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment so dry documentary narration is not for me.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans when other doors were closed.

When cerebral processes enter into sports you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

The NFL is such a large multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans but memories good memories family memories to these fans that can only bring about good will.

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

I think professional sports football to use it as an example it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Sports is the only entertainment where no matter how many times you go back you never know the ending.

I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story whether in print orating writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers.

Before a group can enter the open society it must first close ranks.

Yes all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society God has been relegated to the margin to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position back to center stage.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment it's all excellent it's all noble.

For a long time society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that supersedes the traditional silos that have divided governments philanthropies and private enterprises for decades and replace it with networks of partnerships working together to create a globally prosperous society.