And then I thought, well this is fun.

But can I use a paper towel?

I know I'm not pretty anymore, but I have never thought that you would cheat on me.

But I had the presence of mind to give the teachers' classes that I cut the pottery that I made, and they gave me passing grades.

And because I wasn't planning to get married to the lawyer yet, it never crossed my mine to ask him about his religion before this.

After what I estimate to be about an hour, he finally stops. Reeling, I go back to the cell. It takes a kick to wake me.

Heba Mitkees At that stage, I had no intention to stop chemo the thought hadn t even crossed my mind.

But it occurred to me, how in his small life had he already believed the myth that if something was that well done, that we must have done it.

But it didn't it never occurred to me that it had to be invented and that it had been invented only 350 years ago.

Well, because Mr. Anderson told me that this session is called Sync and Flow, I was wondering, What do I know that these geniuses don't?

And I found some astonishing things in the course of my study that had never occurred to me. Frankly, in the days when I thought I'd had it with religion, I just found the whole thing absolutely incredible.

Now, TED sends you a lot of spam if you're a speaker about do this, do that and you fill out all these forms, and you don't actually know how they're going to describe you, and it flashed across my desk that they were going to introduce me as a futurist.

It never occurred to me that this body, meeting at such a high level, could have problems, not in agreeing to eradicate, but only in recommitting itself to halve poverty by 2015.

And the first thing I did, which was sort of in the absence of another idea, was say I'll sort of write it out and make some words big, and I'll have some kind of design on the back somehow, and I was hoping as one often does to stumble into something.

I thought that something would come out of it, like Words rule fantastic new old first last Pope because it's by Alexander Pope, but I sort of made a mess out of it, and then I thought I'd repeat it in some way so it was legible.

And it was when I flew over the whole area, about 16 years ago, and realized that outside the park, this forest, which in 1960 had stretched almost unbroken along the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, which is where the tiny, 30 square mile Gombe National Park lies, that a question came to my mind.