rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words. Alejandro Jodorowsky The engineering is secondary to the vision. Cynthia Ozick The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. Henri Frederic Amiel Barack Obama is the worst President in history. Ben Quayle Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad. Marla Maples Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack. Sun Tzu I think - you know, I'm a guy that - I don't live on the earth just to walk it. I live on here to make a difference. Tracy McGrady I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I...

ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life? Chris Noth One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so. Franz Kafka If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally. Mehmet Oz Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power. Alice Walker Where no gods are, spectres rule. Novalis Sarcasm is a Manchester trait. Peter Hook My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them. ...

brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water. Saint Basil Any stigma will do to beat a dogma. Philip Guedalla Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. Henri Cartier-Bresson I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen. Mark Ronson Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology. Steven Pinker Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. James Dean I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. Peter Jennings When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of...

thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it's also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It's a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking. Ben Lovett While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned. Ted Nugent When you see that many people with a smile on their face, then you must be doing something right. Greg Norman My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn. Toni Trucks I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. J. K. Rowling I love romantic poetry. Richard Dawkins It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life. Maxine Hong Kingston Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that wil...

up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony. John C. Reilly Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. Thomas More I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older. Johnny Knoxville I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career. Amy Pascal We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today. Kevin Rollins After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either. Bjarne Stroustrup One night I'd had some beers, and then I Googled myself and spent the night in tears. Ginnifer Goodwin I w...

potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering. Sam Harris My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on. Andie MacDowell You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from. Lester Holt We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us. Chris Barber I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it. Chris Daughtry Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. Bill Bradley I don't have a dark side at all. I just like violence. Daniel Silva When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes. Victor Hugo Painting is something that requires a lot of tim...

you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.' Jamie Foxx If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind. W. C. Fields From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters. Deborah Cox I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. Eric Ripert For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian. Agnes Smedley When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love. Debra Winger I have been able to sniff out a phony. Jennifer Coolidge I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which t...

been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections. Fred Barnes The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable. Simon Mainwaring I want it to be remembered that Ozzy was the first celebrity who was brave enough to open up his private life to the public. He was the first. Sharon Osbourne I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there. Harry Frankfurt A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family. Eric Cantona If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. Richard Branson There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. Annie Besant Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them...

raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem. William Petersen Yoga is the perfect way to de-stress and work out at the same time. Shannon Elizabeth If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that. Shane Smith In order for a man to feel whole, he needs someone to look up to and someone to look up to him. Pamela Anderson Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously. Nassim Nicholas Taleb Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough. Stephen Chow The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. Alan Watts No one is above the law, not...

think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind. Thich Nhat Hanh Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it. Steven Seagal Give the public what they want. What you want is unimportant. Pete Waterman Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. Jesus Christ Good habits are worth being fanatical about. John Irving I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. Joseph Barbera People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it. Nikki Haley I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. Jean Kerr This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances. Ronnie Milsap

this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew up in the Cherokee Nation and I'm a member of the Cherokee Tribe. Oddly enough, I know a lot about robots and Oklahoma, and so that's what comes out in my writing. Daniel H. Wilson Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things. Errol Morris The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that. Yoshihiko Noda We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual. Greg Kinnear I am planning a one-man art show of original Batman oil paintings that I will show in New York City. Bob Kane I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was. Balthazar Getty I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still h...

that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian 'wall of separation' between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. Jon Meacham We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful. Anne Sullivan I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28. Billy Corgan We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms. Gary Locke You got to get lucky because it lasts for a week and a lot of things can happen in a week. Eric Heiden It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. Anthony Trollope Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved. Tim O'Brien Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated. Thomas Mann Sunday is a day o...

more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon. Anthony Bourdain As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real. Jerzy Kosinski Summer movies are all about things blowing up and you going, 'Yeah!' Paul Scheer I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people. Charlie Kaufman A smart model is a good model. Tyra Banks Some people don't need to work hard because they are so talented. Matt Smith I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me. Ted Kulongoski I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success. Neil Diamond Fairs are beneath the dignity of art...

blind. It wasn't that he could fly. His major power was an impediment. So I was intrigued. When I took over he was kind of like Spider-Man-lite, but I was able to project a lot of my Catholic imagery onto it. And I'd always wanted to do a crime comic. Frank Miller I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block. Questlove Persevere in virtue and diligence. Plautus Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same. Jenna Dewan Not many people agree with what I do. Guy Kawasaki Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation. Rick Perry I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game. Rickey Henderson I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful. Bethenny Franke...

fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy. Jon Landau Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted. Catherine Deneuve I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over. Katee Sackhoff I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place. Jenny Slate Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein. Leslie Fiedler The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure. Annette Funicello Most of Albania considers this Government to be legitim...

find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it. Gerard Way For me, there is only love and fear. Pink Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past. Peter Pace Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts. George Santayana I have ideas whirring around my head all the time. Timbaland Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. Joe Paterno I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal d...

commitment they have made to review Britain's credit rating in the summer of 2010 after the general election. Everybody in Britain has a vital interest in ensuring that the triple A credit rating agency is maintained. Philip Hammond Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs. Jeanine Basinger I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting. Sasha Alexander I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say. Radha Mitchell It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation. Scott Adams You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say. Martin Luther In Nigeria, along with its West African nei...

you finish it. Yes sir, no ma'am. And you've got to have that kind of structure in your life. It kind of helped me be that disciplined person that I am, whether it's with workouts, film or just the game of football. Robert Griffin III Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too. John Malkovich My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them. Lasse Hallstrom It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant. David Icke It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world. Ron Silver Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. Caleb Cushing Nature has planted in o...

a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside. Natalie MacMaster I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters. Elizabeth Meriwether I became the toast of London. A lot of people I met came from these really decadent families where the married men were gay and no one thought anything about it. Robert Mapplethorpe I was brought up in a world of privilege. Benedict Cumberbatch The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing. Bobby Bonilla The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear. Jiddu Krishnamurti I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself. James Carville Nobody...

our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city. Evo Morales I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid. Joe Perry One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression. Jack Dee I didn't look very sensitive and they didn't know me very well. Geraldine Ferraro I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Clark Gable But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. Patrick Stewart It would be simply suicidal to French Canadian...

in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country. Rick Santorum Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back. Enric Sala I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays. Casey Wilson Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. Wayne Dyer To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid. Lara Flynn Boyle You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters. Star Jones Yeah, I'm an open book. Amy Winehouse There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount. Graham Chapman Whe...

be a mother? If you are a mother, does it mean you have to be a mother with a husband? If you don't have a husband, what is the role that the man plays? I think there are a lot of confusing things that we're all really still sorting out. Lisa Edelstein Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change. Richard Ben-Veniste I have always loved animals since I was very young. Nafisa Joseph I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination. Jonathan Brandis My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often. Saku Koivu Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication. Bill Budge My brand is a demography-breaker. It speaks to all homemakers and women from all walks of life and all across society. Sandra Lee When someone has a strong intui...

has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal. Sam Harris All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. T. S. Eliot Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. Wayne Dyer We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny. Alfred Rosenberg There are lots of people who are red-carpet types, but that's not me. Megyn Kelly I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. Kanye West It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself. Theodore Sturgeon Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and mo...

moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed. Kirsten Dunst As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. Frank Hague In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak. Dane Cook I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet. Paula Radcliffe Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm. Camille Claudel Annika has the type of game I want to work on. She's just so consistent. Hopefully I'll be like that one day. Michelle Wie I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between. Ani DiFranco Yes, though I have nothing but gr...

great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed. Daphne Koller I'm running because we need change. Zack Space In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound like a real person talking. Robert Morgan I'm not interested in going after a part. I think if someone wants me for a part and approaches me then I'll take it on a case-by-case basis and see what that part is. Eli Roth As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way. Stephen Ambrose If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq. Kenneth Clarke My friends in Au...

big fort up in this tall magnolia tree... That's where we would conduct our very important business, I'm sure, with all our bikes leaning up against a tree and no girls allowed, handling all sorts of important things you handle when you're seven or eight. Eric Ladin To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time. Neil Young There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them. Paula Poundstone I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning. Katy Perry I don't really see myself as a big supermodel. Agyness Deyn I hear music as narrative. Ajay Naidu I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable. Scott Adams I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year. Junot Diaz I want my...

technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems. Luke Perry But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed. David Ricardo I know I have pretty good instincts. Ashley Tisdale It's nice to come back for visits. 'General Hospital' is my home. Genie Francis For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' Mark Ruffalo It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots. Lydia Ko All I can say is, death is a part of life. Simon Kinberg Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. Mason Cooley I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school...

make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for. Kate Voegele Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive. Francesca Annis One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces. Gavin Bryars I think every girl is looking for her Mr. Darcy. Keira Knightley 'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience. Rufus Wainwright When I'm not performing? I'm looking for the next big thing. Ashanti I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things. Alyson Hannigan The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. Ken Follett In pop or rock you can ma...

going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries. Meg Whitman It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals. Lysander Spooner E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap. Billy Bush I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport. Pete Rose Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God. Richard Hooker Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies. Peter Sotos I quite fancy the 1940s. I like th...

a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do. Wilbur Ross I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages. Chris O'Dowd I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal. Laura Hillenbrand I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great. Ray Davies Trust in God - she will provide. Emmeline Pankhurst I just like to build things and do things. Andrew Mason I've always gotten along best with artists. Jerry Hall I find that actors who are wanting to pursue tv or films don't seem to have much interest in classical theatre. Renee O'Con...

double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets. Ken Jennings Never was anything great achieved without danger. Niccolo Machiavelli I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's not wishful thinking. Jan Brewer As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.' Alan Ball I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable. Kurt Sutter Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit. Lillie Langtry Becoming the first Canadian male to win a Major Championship, especially being the Masters, was ...

It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder. Cory Monteith Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in. Billy Gibbons You can't get any pictures from way back there. Leo Durocher I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views. Tony Judt When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. Benjamin Disraeli I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile. Carson Kressley My mom was ...

- Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration. Nathan Myhrvold No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City. Michael Bloomberg In order to inspire people, that's going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you. Jeff Weiner Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive. Edward Everett I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her. Isabel Allende Who sows fear, reaps weapons. Friedrich Durrenmatt It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better. Dennis Eckersley I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people. Sloane Crosley The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those w...

a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure. Jon Lovitz I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there. James Polshek There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. Richard Rorty The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. Thomas Francis Meagher As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself. Teresa Palmer If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world. Simon Cowell When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy. Bertrand Piccard I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in di...

won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do. Garret Dillahunt Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian. William Goldman What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world. Anish Kapoor I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. Stephen Fry The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. David Bailey I feel like I'm the luckiest man on the planet. Robert Carlyle That's something I go through eve...

you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create, I think you'll find an audience for it. I've been very fortunate in that respect. Steve Vai I promised my daughter I'd name my first restaurant after her, but now the other kids are like, 'Dad, what about us?' I'm gonna have to open four restaurants! Buddy Valastro Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization. Shimon Peres The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda. Bradley A. Blakeman Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. Thomas Bowdler Why go through...

or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience. Busy Philipps When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it. Daisy Fuentes I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter. Piper Perabo I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year. Tom Holt Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul. Christopher Hitchens Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. John Berryman I get up at the same time every morning. Mehmet Oz I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent. Naomi Camp...

want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning. Sara Blakely I can't be anybody but myself. William Hung Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. Thomas Sowell Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody. Gary Vaynerchuk We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment. Carol Moseley Braun Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination. Drake I will continue to pursue my music and live my life with my family. Chris Daughtry I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a ...

regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace. Thomas Frank I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated. Michelle Williams It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious. Carolyn Murphy Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. Susan Sontag I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them. Heidi Klum The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. William E. Gladsto...

a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway. George Saunders Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together. Keanu Reeves The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do. Wallace Shawn I was a big Transformers fan. Brad Delson After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career. Shawn Johnson I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider. Madonna Ciccone Irony is the hygiene of the min...

like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef. Vince Cable I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it. Grace Slick Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies. R. Kelly Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule. David Byrne This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment. Katherine Mansfield Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses. Gene Tierney A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world. Mandy Moore I had a great childhood. Miranda Lambert If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom. Dana Carvey

because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything. Ronnie Milsap The special counsel has not advised Mr. Rove that he is a target of the investigation and affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges. Robert Luskin I fully support a national health care program for the U.S. Andrew Weil Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong. Ron Paul We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. John Cage I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me. Sadie Frost Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. David Crystal Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn'...

is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others. Amy Waldman I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly. Cristina Kirchner As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds. John Noble The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic. B.o.B The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction. Alfred Adler I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since. John Howe I pledge to you I'm not a talker. I'm a doer. Michele Bachmann Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton You know, f...

me as either a woman or a politician, but it has come to define me in the eyes of the newspapers. I wore a pair of leopard-print kitten heels to a Conservative Party Conference a few years ago and the papers have continued to focus on my feet ever since. Theresa May Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. Zaha Hadid If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms. Abdolkarim Soroush If I'm not working, I don't feel complete. Zoe Kazan I just like working with smart people. Edward Norton We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think. Tina Weymouth I come from a young, hip-hop, urban world. Brandon T. Jackson Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. ...

Equally, it is impossible to talk about adapting to climate change without considering how we will feed ourselves. And it is out of the question that we can adapt agriculture without conserving crop diversity. Cary Fowler If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of 'American Idol' through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape? Ruzwana Bashir It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling. Michael Gove Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character. Zachary Levi Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. Patti Smith Theater has an...

we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected. Michael Steele I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting. Ana Castillo It might be liberating to think of human life as informed by losses and disappearances as much as by gifted appearances, allowing a more present participation and witness to the difficulty of living. David Whyte Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do. Flavor Flav The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government. Charles Eastman I will work with anyone that wants to get America back on track and make sure that the government is the servant an...

going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it. Nathan Myhrvold As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better. Solomon Burke Mitt Romney would move the Court even further right, putting landmark decisions like Roe v. Wade at risk. Some say Romney would repeat the past. I disagree - he'd be worse. Chuck Schumer Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous! W. Edwards Deming Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money. Ree Drummond Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness. John Ortberg You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers. Peter Shumlin Men who are unhappy, like ...

working on that. I got a wheelbarrow, a pick and a shovel, and I started to build a baseball field during writers' strike. We have boys and girls come over and we have clinics in the spring. It's called The Strike because it's named for the writers' strike. John C. McGinley I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young. Pat Metheny When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing. Marion Cotillard I've got to win every race. Dale Earnhardt Do what you're told, and everything will be all right. Norman Jewison Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer. Jo Stafford I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays. Mike Leigh When you're drunk, you always think you're not. If you even drink at all don't get behind the ...

in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words. Nas When you're up for an Oscar, you just get offered everything. It's fantastic, but a lot of it you're completely inappropriate for. Helena Bonham Carter When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery. Greg Norman Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors. Lajos Kossuth Eating right and exercising is more important than what you put on your face. Bobbi Brown You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are. Jaleel White The key...

or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly. Nathan Myhrvold Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly. Jim Hunt Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line. Cyndi Lauper At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind. Michael Pollan No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it. Zola Jesus 'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it. Thomas Fuller When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater. Steven Squyres I got into Taekwondo when I was ...

of a recreational Jew. I celebrate the holidays and I try to inform my kids about their heritage because I think we all at some point have to defend our heritage and if they get picked on I want them to know why. Peter Segal I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others - and you have unity as a people. Marlon Wayans I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. Helen Clark The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you. Francois Rabelais I want to show people what the possibilities are if you take care of yourself and do the right thing. Ben Vereen I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold. Apolo Ohno Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered. Ben Stiller I have al...

on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. Jim Hightower There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise. Nancy Reagan When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. Anna Pavlova I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven. Ralph Abernathy To live without evil belongs only to the gods. Sophocles I dress the way I want. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not. Britney Spears I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedo...

much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did. Adrian Grenier The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods. Lindsey Graham Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me. Chet Atkins To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained. Charles Inglis I took two years away from making films to write a novel. Neil Jordan I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercia...

a stage. Well, that's not entirely true. I dreamed about it but in a performing-on-the-stage-at-Staples-Center-or-Madison-Square-Garden context. But never in a I'm-in-a-movie-that-hasn't-even-come-out-yet one. Jacqueline Emerson Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone else: We all lose loved ones; we all face our own death. Meghan O'Rourke I don't use simple words. I make games and puzzles with my songs. Lisa Loeb No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots. Shirley Manson The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. Goldwin Smith I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds. Adam Lambert There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character. Richard Gere Immigration enthusiasts are so hysterical....

wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. Gerard Way You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on. Gerald Scarfe Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. Edward Thorndike In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble. Eva Longoria I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. David Irving I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me. Edward Bond I was the youngest kid on ...

the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business. Lena Headey There's a finite market for DVD-by-mail, and the growth over the next 10 years will be in streaming. Reed Hastings Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren. Heinrich Himmler Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great. Boomer Esiason Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea? Condoleezza Rice My autobiography was simply the story of my life. Sidney Poitier Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast. Bradley Chic...

a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously. Michael Weatherly Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. Bill James When I was a kid, I had a couple of really good friends, like some really good best friends, but I was really shy other than that. Meg Cabot The general election is not an organizational exercise - it's a mass media exercise. Roger Stone The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler. Tom Lantos Sometimes if I have a big enough purse I'll bring my perfume or something. Right now I really like Beaute, it's by Johan B. and it's really nice, so I like that. Julianne Hough At ...

am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year. Jon Lord Intelligence is nothing without delight. Paul Claudel I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well. Hector Elizondo There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. Alexander Smith When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do. George Martin I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem. Melanie Lynskey Once you're signed to a label you compromise. Talib Kweli We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. William Law I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. Zinedine Zidane

good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get. Stephen Chow I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo. Karl Lagerfeld From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business. Michael Beschloss A punk concert isn't fun without a pit. Billie Joe Armstrong Some brides stress, some don't. I think I'm a serene bride. Charlene, Princess of Monaco I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available. Jerry Falwell As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. Samuel Richardson I know my ...

I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more. Tom Hooper Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. Charles Bradlaugh I always find it funny when I watch actors talking about, 'I chose to do this part.' A lot of times it's 'you're lucky to get the job.' We're like, 'Thank you so much.' Lucy Punch The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner. Howard Staunton Nature stopped being natural decades ago. Jamais Cascio I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it. Alicia Silverstone It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network. Jensen Ackles Rules are important, but they're temporary and they're always suppo...

computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games. Magnus Carlsen Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing. Nick Cave If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere. Bobby Darin I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance. Jon Favreau I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way. Freida Pinto I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs. ...

theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year. Denis O'Hare Actions, such as the designation of National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, spring from First Lady Michelle Obama's leadership of efforts to end childhood obesity within this generation. Richard Carmona I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up. Caroline Kennedy There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11. Joe Bob Briggs I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness. Len Goodman Children make your life important. Erma Bombeck They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my h...

hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language. Francois Hollande We all have our own little thing, I think. Patricia Arquette I like to see life with its teeth out. Janet Frame As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us. Steven Curtis Chapman It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time. Annie Leibovitz Erica Kane was a spectacular role for any actress to play, and I felt so lucky to be the one who got to do it. Susan Lucci Nobody remembers who finished second but the guy who finished second. Bobby Unser To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated. Bertolt Brecht I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me. Irrfan Khan

the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area. Louise Mensch When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work. Molly Shannon I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys. Ed Begley, Jr. Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed. Dwight Schultz I'm a big believer in human nature. Robert Agostinelli This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not? Margot Kidder Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. Barbara Tuchman I make movies I want to see. Neil LaBute I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent. Nigel Dennis

clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. Alan Rickman I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction. Breaux Greer Does this boat go to Europe, France? Anita Loos I come from a poor family. Manny Pacquiao There's less pressure to look good as you get older. Penny Lancaster I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference. Greta Garbo When you create a movie, you create something in your image. Jean-Jacques Annaud People like to see showdowns. Usain Bolt I am a wife-made man. Danny Kaye

more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy. Will Self I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that. Dave Gahan Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies. Jim Clyburn Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves. J. B. Priestley I don't want only a career. Rosie O'Donnell I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person. Steven Adler I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am. Sarah Chalke Writ...

the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason. Ellie Goulding But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice. Dennis Prager There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people. Harvey Mackay You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well. Jennifer Capriati Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. Jane Smiley I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious. Alan Hansen If you are the one who is...

you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems! Kris Carr But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without. James MacArthur If I have one thing perfect, it's my eyebrows. And my feet. I love my feet. They're like Japanese feet. The rest I would like to hide. Especially my freckles. I feel ridiculous. Emmanuelle Beart Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult. Priscilla Presley My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come. Valentino Garavani Manners are love in a cool climate. Quentin Crisp I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say. Bobby Rahal I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. George Michael You know one littl...

Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win. LeBron James The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. Harriet Beecher Stowe I do believe there's a heaven. I do believe that God has given me the resilience and the survival skills to withstand the chiffon trenches. Andre Leon Talley I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc. John Clare All my life I have fought corruption. A. K. Antony In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book. Danica Patrick Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine. Artie Lange It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United Sta...

But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential. Susan Rice It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government. Rick Perry I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody. Claudette Colbert The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. Felix Frankfurter I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down. Christie Rampone Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm. Al Yankovic Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a champions...

gastroenterologists for stomach issues, and rheumatologists for joint pain. Given that most physicians were trained this way, it's no wonder that the average Medicare patient has six doctors and is on five different medications. Mark Hyman I love Richard Pryor. I love him to death. Mike Epps If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever. Anne Lamott Anyone who tries to diss me in comparison to Queen, it just renders all their criticisms completely futile. That's quite pleasurable. Mika I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does. Donald Judd You'll never see me in the red leather. I don't have the chin for it. Joe Pantoliano I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear. Karlie Kloss The strong man is strongest when alone. Friedrich Schiller From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty. Myron Scholes

the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy. Issa Rae Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery. Lillie Langtry There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you. Brad Carson It's all about the special effects. Chris Kirkpatrick Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time. H. G. Bissinger The whole reason Sabrina came about was because we wanted something good for families to watch on TV. Melissa Joan Hart I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy. Karen McDougal For me, acting is play. It's just play and it's playing make believe really, really we...

that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that. John Lydon Taste is a result of a thousand distastes. Francois Truffaut It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance. Jack Vance I'm just someone who observes a lot. Nadine Labaki I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. Christina Ricci I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance. Oscar Nunez I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money. Kristy Swanson I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and...

who are doing most of the combat reporting. They're taking most of the risks. They're absorbing most of the casualties. And they're the most underserved and under-resourced of everyone in the entire news business. Sebastian Junger The paparazzi is kind of crazy here in L.A., but it's nothing like it is in London. They are animals over there, it's insane. Matthew Morrison The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. William Graham Sumner This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished. Benjamin Tucker I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school. David Bailey I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so m...

institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states. Kevin Rudd I have a Blackberry which I use, but I am one of those people who can only type on it with one hand. Dev Patel As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others. Sharon Salzberg I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me. Leon Spinks Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be. Noel Gallagher Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced. Ken Livingstone Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny. Michelle Bachelet Words are much better at relating emotions and th...

the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary. Bob Dylan I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. Emily Bronte But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire. Benjamin Whorf That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. Paul Tsongas The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. Al Gore Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them. Ayrton Senna I went straight in. Fade in, one... whatever. He's playing the pia...

legally binding but morally binding. You agree to give this man a certain number of weeks of your life, and you just go for it as much as possible. Because, whatever happens, the film is going to come out, so you might as well try very hard to make it a good one. Kristin Scott Thomas The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. Warren Bennis Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living. Peter Blair Henry I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?' Matt Long The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman. Billy Graham It's difficult dating as an actor because your free time is precious. The guy I end up with someday is going to have to love traveling. Serinda Swan I live and die with the Chicago ...

live in the Land of Ooo. That is one of the wonderful things about the show; it doesn't pretend to be real. That was the great thing about 'Pee Wee's Playhouse'; it existed in a world completely outside any reality a kid recognized. Fred Seibert Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars. Steven Rattner On a personal note I want to gain more confidence and give back in any way I can. Skylar Laine Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press. Christian Lous Lange I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Nia Vardalos In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration o...

pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesn't have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant. Rene Redzepi No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism. Gilbert Gottfried When I was in high school I was a super serious athlete. I wasn't fun at all. Seann William Scott Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities. Josh Hartnett Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. Margaret Heffernan Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously. Frank Gehry Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all. John Burns You make sacrifices to become a mo...