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Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?

So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

I asked him if he ever hung out with black guys in high school and he said, 'Well, no. They always had these angry looks on their faces. Who wouldn't look ticked off having to deal with nitwits like him?

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that.

The other thing I wanted but never got to do had something to do with Liz Taylor but she's getting a little old and a little fat.

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m.

There are congressmen in our congregation, judges, federal reserve governors. And there are also people who are homeless and some who are mentally ill. To be able to talk to each of those people is something that I've had to learn how to do over the years.

When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.

Unless it's an emergency, don't bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.

We're not as civilized as we think. And I wanted with my coverage really to drive that point home - because there's something we can do about it.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.

We're seeing that at the classic rock station in Chicago that they have teenagers and people in their 20s calling in for this music.

When you say shock value, the fact that we talk about what happened to a person... we talk about real things, we talk about real issues.

Yesterday American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, the Iraqis handed the British food back.

Lights became so hot they melted mascara on women's faces in early television.

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

So I'm going to tell you, it's going to be a good year. There are good players all over this country, and it is our job as a scouting department to find them, draft them, sign them, develop them, and help us to continue to win championships. So it's going to be a good year.

Signature is extremely rare, and the belief that it commonly exists confuses police investigators and makes for a lot of foolish assumptions.

Since the show was done in small bits and pieces, we seldom taped anything more than a couple of minutes so generally you could learn your lines.

Most people clearly see the need for adequate support and funding for libraries, so it's really a matter of standing up and addressing the issue.

My feeling has always been that Good Eats would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

I guess I can be moderately amusing at times, but the idea of standing up in front of 200 people with beers is just too frightening.

I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.

I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.

I don't always get to go to a Mass in a traditional church, there's a friend who likes to have book parties at her home in Connecticut.

But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually.

From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.

I don't think that McMahon thinks very much about the fact that J.R and I have been successful. I don't think that McMahon thinks the wrestling announcers really have that much to contribute the show.

If the Dept. of Defense is not caring for all the needs of our vets there are other organizations that will - you just have to find them.

If the evens of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

We think Cyclorama - our most recent studio album - is a great record and everyone that has taken the time to listen to agrees with me.

I was in one of the touristy country bars downtown, and I asked a guy onstage who was playing for tips to play a Hank Williams song.

I think that the industry's failure to embrace and create a legal form of downloading is contributing to an already acute problem.

Ladies be seated, a laugh doesn't cost you a dime.

Ladies be seated, and let's have a wonderful time!

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

Our scouting department sees these players and we know our development plan with each and every player. We communicate very well.

Long gone are those days where the studio dictated what they could wear, where they could go, and with whom they could be seen. It was programmed.

Look, a lot of women would be turned off with hearing me say how hot I think Brad Pitt is! Know what I mean? So I probably don't help my cause.

I will tell you that I don't do the pretty boy thing. I'm more often compared to Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, Joe Cocker sort of thing.

I think one of the most important things they did was create an environment where it was absolutely a given that women held authoritative positions.

Johnny Carson, when he and Joanna split after many years of marriage, everybody had it on news. That's big news when big stars have a problem.

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

Mostly I'm a people person so I enjoyed the interaction between the people I worked with and the game, if it was a good game it was a bonus.

We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.

Well, I ride just a couple times a week.

Well, we had more money and more time the first season than we did at TV 23.

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

Well, Food Network has complete control, since they own everything. But the way I like to put it is this: If you don't like Good Eats, it's my fault.

Yeah, all the characters in those days were abstract because that was part of the principle that I was working under, that you wanted abstract things.

There is absolutely no doubt that I am a more mature individual and Tommy Shaw is a more mature individual and that we learned a lot.

When you knock out 6-10 shows a day, at the end of the day, you really have got to wind yourself up just to do those last shows.

While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.

Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!

When Sesame Street came on - well, it was a combination - we were too busy to do commercials and it was a pleasure to get out of that world.

But Mama was stricter: I had to wear this and I had to do that. She was really kind and loving, but I used to be so happy to go to my father's house.

To put it better, we believe the radar gun will get you drafted, but you have to pitch to get to the big leagues. Tools will get you drafted, but you have to be able to play to get to the big leagues.

You cannot force the issue. When you try to out-smart other clubs it will jump up and bite you. You cannot go against the strength of the draft.

The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.

The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.

When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.

There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

As the U.S., the world is questioning why not end it, and so if, in fact, we were to pull out, the world would definitely question why we did this to begin with. But I still believe the world would call upon us for help if they needed it.

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.

During the summer of '65, I became fairly addicted to Password. I enjoyed his work as a host and thought that this wasn't a bad way to make a living.

I've been rich and I've been poor; Believe me, honey, rich is better.

It was very disorienting and I didn't like it, but the people who like Mystery Science Theater all seem to understand the story.

The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.

I've been asked to do a TV reality show where I'd pick the greatest daredevil in the world. I'm giving it some serious thought, too.

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.

Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now.

People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.

No sight that human eyes can look upon is more provocative of awe than is the night sky scattered thick with stars.

The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.

Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.

The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition.

The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

So, We're really L.A. based with a secondary base in Chicago.

Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character.

Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country was just New York on one end and Los Angeles on the other, with sand and mountains in the middle.

As a scouting department, with the confidence we have in our player development, if a guy has the potential that we think they have and the makeup and they stay healthy, we think they will be a productive Major Leaguer. We take a lot of pride in that.

The Bushes in office now have asked that everybody respect the privacy of their twin girls. We're laying back because they asked for that.

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV.