I studied English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, and I did an M.F.A. in Poetry at Columbia.
I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.
Today's kids have a mind of their own, and they know how to exercise it. Even if I wanted to tell Sara or my son Ibrahim how to lead their lives - which I don't - they would not listen to me. Luckily, Sara chose to complete her studies before pursuing acting. She attended Columbia University and then devoted her attention to Bollywood.
In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new interdisciplinary institute, the Biotechnology Laboratory. I decided that it was time for me to start paying back for the thirty years of fun that I had been able to have in research.
I was packing to go to Columbia University, and they told me that weekend that I got the 'Pitch Perfect.'
When I got my law degree and my license to practice here in the District of Columbia, I represented several immigrants who had entered without inspection.
I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.
My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.
I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.
I have lectured at Town Hall N.Y., The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Wellesley, Columbia, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana State University, Colorado, Stanford, and scores of other places.
I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
The District of Columbia has every right to pass their own laws, and House Republicans should stay out of it.
I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.