Some men were afraid of him because he was so rich and powerful.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Lennon and McCartney, because I listened to so much of it growing up.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

I think it's an incredibly exciting time because we can now draw on so many different sources that we are influenced by, and I sort of feel like anything goes."

VOA: special.2010.07.19

"We are so happy for this qualification because it is so important for we Ghanaians and the whole of Africa."

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

We like them and they like us also, so that is why we love this area here, because of the people,nothing more,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

And everybody is being kind of downhearted to hear such shocking news because people didn't expect that Michael would have died so soon,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

And here my favorite program book so far has been the Iliad, because I think you get the full spectrum of human experience."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

"This will wedge itself in so tightly and completely block the airway that within minutes, because of lack of oxygen, a child will die."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"It's part of the problem of the entertainment and tourist industry that you are so dependent upon a buoyant economy, because one of the first things that people cut is their discretionary leisure spending."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"In a lot of the parts of the developing world this trust could be broken and because it's become so profitable to distribute,sell,manufacture, a lot of these products that are of low quality, and substandard."

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

It was really difficult for me to shoot the old-style 'gunslinger' guns because I have tiny little baby hands and they are really large and heavy, so just the physicality of actually having to pull that off was really difficult.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

"They are all hurtling around in space at 36,000 kilometers per hour and so even a 1mm piece of space junk can destroy or damage a satellite because it all comes from either dead satellites, satellites which have broken up, satellites which had fuel left in them and exploded."

VOA: standard.2010.07.24

"But I think the committee made a mistake in giving the prize so soon,frankly, because it somewhat discredits and cheapens the whole notion of the Peace Prize because we haven't yet seen if this Obama approach really is going to make a difference in solving problems.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

If there is one message to the Somali people, and especially to the students in medicine and nurses, we are going to help you,and were going to continue to help you, because it is so important that in times of crisis we have the right humanitarian assistance, (No Transcripts) I think it is important that the Somali people still have hope that the next batch of students are going to be able to achieve their graduation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05