In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities. – Janine di Giovanni
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live. – Isaac Rosenberg
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities. – Ben Bernanke
It’s the adventure, the adrenaline-flowing, risk-taking in outdoor activities that attracts me. – Baba Kalyani
Two studies from the year 2000, however, indicate that Catholics give lower ratings to their clergy’s ministerial activities across the board than do Protestants. – Andrew Greeley
). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities. – Frank Gaffney
Iran has had a very harmful effect in a variety of ways in the region… fomenting unrest to a degree in Saudi Arabia, undoubtedly in Bahrain, and definitely in Yemen with Hamas, with Lebanese Hezbollah among other activities in locations. – David Petraeus
I don’t quite have the energy for extra curricular activities. I have to pace myself a little bit more. – James Young
I’m a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I’m very interested in that. – Kathleen Battle
Jeremy Stoppelman started Yelp. Max Levchin started Slide. I started LinkedIn. It was a mininova explosion of folks jumping out to doing other entrepreneurial activities. – Reid Hoffman
Citizens’ rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms. – Rebecca MacKinnon
When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn’t have much water in it. It was for drainage purposes. There was not a lot trouble to get into in that ditch. It was ditch activities like catching crawdads and minnows. – Ron White
Playwrights have texts, composers have scores, painters and sculptors have the residue of those activities, and dance is traditionally an ephemeral, effervescent, here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of thing. – Twyla Tharp
It’s a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do. – Scott Kelly
