I've seen a lot of the United States having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country and instead of learning about it through a textbook I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient so I worked as little as possible.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately you would be able to do it.

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster otherwise you get left behind. For me there would be trouble in stopping learning.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy ever if you want something you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else practice makes perfect.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me it would focus me right in.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you're living your life. I wouldn't compare our movie to that but it has a structure where it's about a man who doesn't appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child as an eight- or nine-year-old asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels and I would say 'What does that mean?'

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Without pain there would be no suffering without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right pain and suffering is the key to all windows without it there is no way of life.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

If we knew what it was we were doing it would not be called research would it?

Actually I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.