Ever since I was a little girl seeing Star Wars for the first time, I've been fascinated by this idea of personal robots.

Every time I would begin thinking obsessionally again, once more, after 20 shock treatments I would say, Ah, fuck it.

I have only met him once, but always saw him at the protests.

Every time there was a surgery that failed, I was left with a little less flesh and bone.

When I was nine years old I went off to summer camp for the first time.

Every time you ever hear me on the television or somewhere, I'm ad libbing.

Once I was there, I spent most of the day photographing the family working under the hot sun.

The question arose again when my mother was shot, and again when I was under investigation.

Once upon a time, at the age of 24, I was a student at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore.

I had so much fun hanging out with you last night, I wonder if I could do it again tonight.

You probably think you know how to do this, but let me explain it once more.

I was about eight years old then. I don't know what made me so interested in it, except that my sister said that the hijackers were Shi'a, and that was why she was following the news.

You know, a gentleman was once watching a presentation I was doing, when I was working with a young pianist.

When I married my wife, I promised her that I would listen to her every day as if for the first time.

In 850 Vikings overwintered for the first time in England, on the island of Thanet, Kent.

Every time I sort of pushed one down, another one would just sort of pop back up again.

I was describing this in Berlin once and the next day in the newspaper the headline said, I am the Queen of England.

I was a teenager when I first read Anna Karenina and its famous opening sentence, All happy families are alike.

As the commentator Andrew Sullivan put it, I saw the person I first saw...I saw the president I thought I knew.

Once I was in New York and got in a cab. I took the backseat, and in front of me I saw something related to a play.

So, every time my heart would beat I'd hear the beep beep beep beep, you know, the ticking, really loud.

And at each time, I would feel the chilling stares of condemned prisoners' eyes follow me.

Now, when I was here at the first TED, I showed this photograph two men of the Elder Brothers, the descendants, survivors of El Dorado.

And once it was sort of explained to me how fast we were using up the world's resources, I got very upset, about as upset as I did when I realized that the Earth will only last about five billion years before it's swallowed by the sun.

People first landed on the Moon while I was a teenager, and I turned to other pursuits journalism, the Internet, startup companies.

So you don't need to go into the recent calls list, so if you're trying to get through to somebody, just hit the call button again.

I've got three little grandchildren, and every time I look at them and I think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was their age, I feel this desperation.

And to defend my title like judokas do and sportsmen I thought, well let's go back in 2005, and I won again.

I m able to reflect back on things I ve done wrong, or could have been done differently.

I would again like to remind those regional groups that, in my capacity as Chairman designate, I gave last Wednesday as the deadline for the submission of nominations.

It was my ex girlfriend. While I was breaking the record underwater for the first time, she was sifting through my Blackberry, checking all my messages.

And sometimes actually, once it was on Page Six in the Post, that I was cruising this guy, like, sort of, whatever, but I was actually just following because he had these really great shoes on.

But, you know, as I looked at this more and more and more, and saw these images go across the rocks, I realized I was seeing the same archetypal events depicted again and again and again.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

The last thing I remember was lying on a white blanket, telling my surgeon that I needed to see my mother again, and to please try and save my voice.

For the first time in years, Shi'ites were allowed to make the pilgrimage to Karbala to observe Ashura, and I was amazed by the sheer number of people and how fervently they practiced their religion.

The day I walked into Biosphere 2, I was, for the first time, breathing a completely different atmosphere than everybody else in the world, except seven other people.

I was thinking, I just finished making another film about World War II vets, and I realized I'd gotten to know their stories, and I realized this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to tell a warrior's story as it unfolded.

And I was thinking about this, of all places, on a transatlantic flight a couple of years ago, because I happened to be seated next to a Hungarian physicist about my age and we were talking about what life was like during the Cold War for physicists in Hungary.

When Thatcher first expressed her belief in the potential of Gorbachev s pro democracy reforms, I was a 24 year old recent university graduate beginning my career.

jenanmoussa Its great to be back in Aleppo meet all my friends. City seems much better than last time I was here. People adapted to war.

This was bad! Man, I was I cough. I was sick.

I'm cutting my hair, it's getting short and long, because every time I saw Kofi Annan, I was so worried that he thought I was a hippie that I cut it, and that was kind of what was going on.

As a child, I hated tomatoes.