I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.
The best part about working is that you never know what you're going to learn when you start out.
Sometimes you can't know until you know.
I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it
For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.