their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it. Marian Keyes Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work. Doug E. Fresh When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles. Brene Brown Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others. Noel Coward In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. Leonard Bernstein To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. Alexander Smi

a character. It's so much fun. In 'Think Like a Man,' I have a very small part. They told me it wasn't a big budget, but I don't care about any of that. I'll do it for free simply because I love being on the set with other creative people. Sherri Shepherd The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know? Hal Sparks Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life. Linda Vester What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story. Robert Redford I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris. Brian McDermott The States still has the best audiences by far. Robin Trower I wr

it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers. Criss Angel I'm not a predictable black liberal. Juan Williams I've never been to the gym. I do nothing. Adriana Lima When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. Jean-Paul Sartre I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America. Pat Benatar If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances. Spike Jonze When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me. Dean Norris Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination. Thylias Moss Don't get mad. Get everything! Ivana Trump Of course language mani

women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. Camille Paglia I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you. Jeffrey Wright So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear. Jesse Jackson After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise. Carrie Brownstein With the amount of money I have, it's difficult raising children the way I was raised. Adam Sandler You should give no indication that we wish the th

Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. Azar Nafisi Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil. Nawal El Saadawi You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process. Birch Bayh In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors. Laure Manaudou Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage. Fred Armisen Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis. Nuno Bettencourt Men do not fail; they give up trying. Elihu Root I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do. Penny Marshall Pain is as diverse as man. On

boy, a prototype skinhead. You all had your hair like a crew cut, cropped, with suits or Levis with red suspenders, sometimes Doc Martens. It was a thriving soul music, Motown and ska scene; we used to dance to Prince Buster and the Skatalites. Graham Parker How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.' Ali Smith I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto. Kendrick Lamar If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming. Robert Forster I'm crepuscular. Christopher Hitchens I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school. Shelby Lynne Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally. Albert Br

her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities. Nicki Minaj We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. Steve Jobs The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear. Charles de Montesquieu If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant. Yehuda Berg With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems. Moon

of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month. Graydon Carter I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible. Robert Towne Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing. Jan Garbarek It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities. Daniel Baldwin It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold. Rod

sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs. Harry Connick, Jr. My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy? James Franco Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering. Catherine Bell I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign. Park Geun-hye I've got a really sweet tooth and sometimes I just have to have some chocolate. Kirsty Gallacher When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared. Margaret Mahy I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young! Marc Davis I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It h

but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life. Kate Voegele It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves. Bjork He was as fresh as is the month of May. Geoffrey Chaucer That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too. Sean Penn I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters. Nicole Kidman My acting career helped pull me through the rough times. Shirley Knight A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information. Jimmy Wales One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech. Danica Pa

a vile rapper because he has an opinion... just says a lot about the state of America. You are allowed to have an opinion in the United States - he's never harmed anybody, he just has an opinion about a president that wasn't good for our country. Jill Scott I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated. John Hodgman A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel. Elizabeth Blackwell With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty. Marcia Cross I'm working for the women in the world, toda

long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of 'work begets work' actually worked in that case - it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced. Carrie Preston It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me! Akshay Kumar I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts. Gene Simmons I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France. Jacques Delors Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. John Boyd Orr People are not patient anymore. Antonio Banderas Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a phone call or email taking place. Jeffrey Gitomer I'm not going to jump out

If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them? Cate Blanchett I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me. Dougray Scott I always tell people I'm running against two Democrats, one that admits it and one that does not. Marco Rubio Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Angelina Jolie Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just look like regular dudes off the street. Vince Neil I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. Wayne McGregor Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral

a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup. Sherry Turkle I never had any financial support or sponsors, and so I always had to, at every level, prove myself the hard way. I was five years in Japan before I got my debut at Le Mans. And I think this is a humble way to get through as a racing driver. Tom Kristensen I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people. Mariano Rivera The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. Lord Hailsham I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn. Elizabeth Edwards I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident. Ludacris Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you

to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah. John Lahr When you play the same character for a long time, you have a shorthand. You get onto the set, you put on your outfit and two-thirds of your work is done because you've built on that work for so many years. Lisa Edelstein When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind. Jonathan Davis Any idealism is a proper subject for art. Lafcadio Hearn The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not. Lukas Foss I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it. Banksy I

he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent. Mitt Romney America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. Goldwin Smith Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices. Paul Wellstone We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists. Eddie Obeng I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody. Elizabeth Warren To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up. Michael Franti I

taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. Mitt Romney Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score. James Harden We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion. Larry Kramer Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it. David Keith A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks. Steve Guttenberg We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves. Aung San Suu Kyi Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable. Waris Dirie As an educator

the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends. Paul Feig Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s. Kim Wilde My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs. Chris Kattan My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths. Dylan Lauren I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening. Susanna Hoffs I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland. Renny Harlin Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children. Helen Dunmore The family is a court of just

television kind of frequently, but then they saw that that didn't work. They really couldn't bait us into being stupid, so they stopped. You know the mainstream media, corporate media, avoids ever giving anyone who has anything to say a platform, if they can possibly help it. James Cromwell Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich. Steve Guttenberg Here in Denver, we want to thank Jeremy Jacobs for the way he runs his business. Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten Ray Bourque and won a Stanley Cup. Joe Sakic Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time. Paul Muldoon It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Kim Gordon I'm not political and I don't judge. David Bailey Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and

and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo. Walter Mosley Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Benjamin Spock The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint. J. M. Coetzee I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products. Lori Greiner I have throbbing headaches about a lot of things, and Howard Stern isn't one of them. Robert Greenblatt If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart. Cesar Chavez

platforms, and the stand-up movement in this country is phenomenal. It's like rock n' roll here. Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves. Brendan Coyle I'm kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more. James Brown Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food. Rene Redzepi The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. Edward Thorndike I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced. Renee Fleming Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole. Samuel Richardson I fought all my life for women to mak

owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk. Eliot Spitzer In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the bar for corporate performance so high that executives felt their only option was to slash payrolls. James Surowiecki Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do? Will Ferrell I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off. Roger Moore There's no new news. Tommy Lee I'm not a guy that believes you've got to have a lot of experience to have success in the playoffs. Phil Simms I'm the opposite of jealous. Eli Manning I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.

'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade. Jerry Saltz Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up. Mike Hawkins So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. Bill Sienkiewicz Yes, I'm a New Yorker, born and bred. While I'm not quite the L.A. snob that Woody Allen is, I do find myself happier in New York. Corey Stoll In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve. Mark Strong I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States. Barbara Mikulski You've got to find ways to breathe while you're dancing so that when it comes time for you to stop and sing again, you have it. Kristin Chenoweth I wa

care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. David Simon I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles. Pamela Anderson I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam. Dana Rohrabacher The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God. Manny Pacquiao I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row. Erica Durance I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously. Robin Trower Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in. Henry Paulson I get horrified when I have to do table reads with

there's like a hundred movies there, and you've got to figure out what movies are sold out, what can you see. Sometimes you go to see movies that you don't know anything about because it just works into your schedule. Tim Heidecker I'm not real good at romance. Jeff Bridges I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent. Sonja Sohn Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways. Francesco Guicciardini There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike. Lakhdar Brahimi I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion. Ellen DeGeneres I might not agree with myself in a year. Aisha Tyler I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before

renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. Mary Schmich This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer. Marco Rubio Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death. Socrates And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events. Ed Bradley Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him. Lara St. John Many people who excel are self-taught. Herb Ritts I have no fears when it comes to my hair or clothes. Selma Blair Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style. Bobbi Brown I think because I became a mom la

from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on. Nouriel Roubini The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit. Martin Feldstein Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. Abbie Hoffman It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself. Shawn Johnson Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies. Lawrence Eagleburger I'm a regular dude from Kansas who grew up with pigs and cows. Eric Stonestreet With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I

to a local school. So when I returned to L.A., one day I just called the principal of a nearby elementary school and asked what I could do. Five years later, I've helped make over nine schools, repainting, renovating, and fixing up playgrounds. Cheryl Hines That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end. Terry Zwigoff Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down. Sade Adu If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl. Amy Winehouse The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime. Antony Beevor It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or ideas that have become in some way almost alive and aware. Alan Moore Just like m

through. I've always get a big lump in my throat when I sing that song. And also 'Before It Breaks.' So I'm just a different songwriter now. And the older I get, the more difficult it becomes to deliver those songs casually. Brandi Carlile A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption. John Ralston Saul I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well. Shirley Manson 'Born this Way' is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud. Lady Gaga If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar. John Mayer Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all and play because you never know what tomorrow holds. Russell Westbrook I have three sons, a husband, parents, and I'll fight and get angry, but what is very important that I have found as I've matured, is that I have to

learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around. Patton Oswalt If the undocumented have to work hard to attain citizenship, those of us who already are citizens should have to work hard to sustain it. We should all have to serve more, vote more, build more, and do more for our country. Eric Liu I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done. Ernest Cline There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty. Celine Dion I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script. Conrad Hall I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that. Adam Lambert I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben

need a leader who understands how the real economy works and has the vision to fundamentally change Washington. That leader is Mitt Romney. No other candidate in the field possesses his lifetime of success in both the private sector and as a governor. Timothy Griffin The only people who have the long view are some scientists and some science fiction writers. Sheri S. Tepper The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us. Dick Cheney I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. Justin Halpern Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity. Debra Winger I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people. Michael Kiwanuka But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thi

wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing. N. T. Wright In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep. Youssou N'Dour And then it got even worse, I mean, a few people fell by the wayside within hours. Nick Lowe was in it for about 5 hours I think, he was expelled for going to bed. Dave Edmunds Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and understand me before you judge me. Only God can do that. Roses do grow from concrete! Chris Webber I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them

to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you. Elliott Abrams If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list. Tori Spelling So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment. Jack Kingston I had gone to school to study marine biology. Skeet Ulrich I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part. Sue Grafton I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised... yeah, it

wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows? Anne Hathaway You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting. Meryl Streep I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian. Izabel Goulart I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in. Elizabeth Debicki The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive. Andrew Weil For people who know McQueen, there is always an underl

be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful. J. Michael Straczynski I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean. Robert Mueller In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband. Mary Lou Retton Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive. Waylon Jennings Usually, I don't want to sit down and listen to the director gas on about his movie. I just can't actually imagine myself sitting down and having that much to say. Joel Coen Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear w

of them will reply with hostility. Not because they know the facts, or because they have researched it themselves, but because they're so psychologically involved in believing good news that they will oppose it with a reflex. Jeremy Grantham I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.' Candace Bushnell Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat. Martina Navratilova I love America, it's a much more permissive place. Amy Winehouse You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?' Alexander Payne With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. Christian Marclay The best part of my carreer is gettin

the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore. Steve Jobs I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them. April Bowlby A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing. Jessamyn West No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. Harold Rosenberg Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder. Henry David Thoreau There will always be opportunities to be in love again. Shia LaBeouf I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind. David Mamet When I'm on stage, all is right with the world. Gloria Gaynor Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture. Shirley Manson I look at Jessica Alba

who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving. Benigno Aquino III I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company. Michael Ovitz I'm a very competitive girl. In everything I do. Chloe Grace Moretz I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus. Susan Orlean My life is brillant, My love is pure. James Blunt My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity. Stephen Sondheim There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry. Elizabeth Meriwether You know, I

it's misnamed. We're not so much trying to help people as we're trying to help ourselves. So let's be clear about this. So these are - in my view, they're cold calculations of national security and not aid programs. Richard Armitage MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive. Annette Funicello I'm able to provide for my family and the people that I love with things that I never used to be able to. I'm getting to make music and work with amazing people. I just feel really lucky. Rebecca Ferguson I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't. Paul Simon The question of armaments, whether on land or sea, is the most immediately and intensely practical question connected with the future fortunes of nations and of mankind. Woodrow Wilson By jove, no wonder women don't love

hitting the scene. What more could you want with a gangster? He looked the part. They call it gangster chic. He dressed like the 'Reservoir Dogs' - black suit, white shirt, skinny black tie. You know, he had the whole look down. And the big shades, of course. Tom Folsom We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one. Moon Unit Zappa In Europe people don't worry about the body. Paz Vega But no, I'm not political. My obligation is to pull the lever and elect somebody who's going to make life a little better for everybody, especially those who don't have as much good fortune as others. Mark Wahlberg There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair. Ted Rall I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and

mean, it's still incredibly surreal to me that I was a kid in San Antonio watching movies and then now I'm working with some of the people that were in those movies. I don't think it'll ever stop being surreal on some level. James Roday I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. Jim Harrison Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal. Robert Irvine Advertising ought to work by telling you what it is you want to tell, you should understand what you want us to do, what you want us to think, where you want us to shop. Jay Chiat We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band. Joan Jett Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.

and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. Hillary Clinton I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason. Matthew Bourne Fashion is not art. Never. Jean Paul Gaultier I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources. Dan Rather Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls. Kid Rock Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan. Tracy Austin In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-mi

sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it? Richard Dawson There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late. Charles Kingsley I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men. Eleanor Mondale Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me. Judith Guest I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism. Aung San Suu Kyi Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able. Carl Lewis If I'm feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictu

exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it? Michael Gambon To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing. Mikhail Baryshnikov In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times. Daniel H. Wilson I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players. Dimebag Darrell But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do. Deana Carter Your waist size should not be more than half your height. Mehmet Oz If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't

what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling. Paul Arden The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people. Angela Merkel Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to. Gilda Radner I see myself as a flashlight in the dark. I'm not trying to be overlooked anymore. Lloyd Banks If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems? Ethan Zuckerman I have to reign myself in a lot. Thurston Moore We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on

what gangsters and loan sharks do who make predatory loans. While the bankers wear three-piece suits and don't break the knee caps of those who can't pay back, they still are destroying people's lives. Bernie Sanders Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written. Elvis Costello A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking. Andrzej Wajda I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson like my brother as well. We both tend to take the mickey a bit much. Prince William I think every woman goes through a relationship where she is with a guy that is really not right for her. You get lost in it. Kirsten Dunst I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. Denzel Was

have such great admiration for Morgan Freeman and was just thrilled to be around him, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to be having perhaps more fun than I was at his job. And I thought, 'Well, that's very promising.' Timothy Olyphant One things guys have to remember is consistency... You can't make up for three years of eating poorly in just one workout. Apolo Ohno The Russians are a very sentimental people. Mike Jackson Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable. Patrick Ewing I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one. Jason Biggs Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all. Jonathan Coleman Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to r

old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you're gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations. Sebastian Junger Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low. Parris Glendening We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?' Matthew McConaughey I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well. Lou Gramm I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing. Kareena Kapoor Khan I had redesigned my entire amplifier system for this tour because airlines are very strict now. Lee Ritenour Fragile egos are put on the line every day. Mary Lou Retton We are taught that revenge is strong and compassion is weak. We are taught that power is more important than love. Sharon

number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident. Nassim Nicholas Taleb I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me. Florence Griffith Joyner I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed. Alexei Navalny People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. Max Cannon I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one. Morrissey Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on. John Cusack The votes of 60,000 Floridia

with someone. You just think they are so cool and want to be around them all the time, but what if she starts being embarrassed and only giving me charity visits? I want her to actually want to see me, so that's what I'm going for! Jeremy Sisto I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National. Norma McCorvey I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl. Jay Baruchel My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side. Grant Achatz Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable. Nellie McKay Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting. Joyce Appleby I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-f

that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane. Mandy Moore I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect. Logan Lerman But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos. Dave Eggers I don't need government to be successful. Michele Bachmann I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way. Justin Timberlake If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other. Nikki Giovanni I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. Carrie Fisher You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They t

a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library. Katherine Paterson In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. Stefan Zweig I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don't know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that. Josh Hutcherson Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line. Graydon Carter My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad. Amber Tamblyn The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised ins

could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost. Mara Liasson You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again. Trevor Rabin Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. Mia Wasikowska I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic. Harry Anderson People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak. Matthew Bourne Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind. George Strait The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi s

yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly. Justin Chon Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it. William Kingdon Clifford I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything. Adam Garcia Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. Kenneth Grahame The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat. Andrei Platonov Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. Joe Biden I like to cook things very slowly. Daniel Day-Lewis You gotta live life before you c

consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there. Walt Mossberg When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House! William Levy It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression. Ornette Coleman I didn't always want to be a dad. Liam Gallagher John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking. Molly Ringwald In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. Paul Valery I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death. Mitch Albom The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that. Fareed Zakaria

more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there. Neil Patrick Harris I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok. Dick Gephardt Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter. Timothy Murphy Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way. Daniel Tammet I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself. Bob Dylan And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol becau

preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20. David Axelrod I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic. Gloria Vanderbilt Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads. Helena Christensen Luxury is a state of mind. L'Wren Scott When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter? Candice Bergen I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform. Avicii While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it do

try to eat healthy foods, but... that doesn't mean I won't treat myself now and then! I work out almost every day, which gives me more energy and helps me feel stronger. I also try to be a genuinely good person to the people around me. Erica Durance I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people. Chief Joseph There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed. Matthew McConaughey When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking 'Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?' Melissa McBride I've always loved music and held it as a sacred thing that I can't touch, as I don't really want to deconstruct it or be a musician. Aaron Koblin Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy. Famke Janssen P

a worksheet with sums printed on it. I thought that they must have run out of the right colour inks and sizes for the numbers, because they were all the same, which isn't how I experienced numbers at all. To me, nine is big and blue. Daniel Tammet Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done. Gene Hackman Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest. Ryan Cabrera I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. Mel Torme Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book. Moby To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it. Greg No

a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers. Claudia Schiffer I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with. Andre Braugher If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy. Daniel Cudmore I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. Eli Whitney I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character. Shia LaBeouf I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me. Drake Bell I'm living my dream

it's a marriage. It's like a relationship with that film so you've got to make sure that it's really something that you want to live with for three years or however long it is. So I haven't found the right thing to marry yet. Grant Heslov Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma. Josephine de La Baume No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life. Jimmy Connors If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself. George Best Army life don't agree with me. Eddie Slovik Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. Miguel de Cervantes Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember. Graydon Carter

precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window. Bill Viola I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance. Joan Allen Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. Gerard Way I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies. Nicole Anderson People don't really know me at all. Leona Lewis I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid. Shah Rukh Khan With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand. Tim Matheson When I was five I thought auditions were a great way to get out of school! Logan Lerman My dad is often horrified by what I've s

is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part. George Strait I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. Zooey Deschanel I don't think there's any accidents in my life. Billy Ray Cyrus Social Security is a tax. Todd Akin The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years. Ian Smith Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. Christopher Lasch I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French. Anna Held There are enough sca

Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art. Jerry Saltz I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad. Bill Pullman I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea. Rafael Nadal Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty. Chrisette Michele History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. Wendell Willkie Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce. Brendan Fraser Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw l

inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty. James Fenton Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count. Ritchie Blackmore There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia in our culture. It's regrettable, it's stupid, it's heartless, and it's immoral, but there it is. Rupert Everett I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic. Amy Tan I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks. Gabrielle Reece My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic. Yancy Butler I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wa

you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time. Snoop Dogg I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft. James Lipton I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children. Tracy K. Smith You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self. Hugh Laurie It is vital that we communicate to seniors their options regarding prescription drug assistance. Jim Gerlach Apple really has no presence in business, and we think Vista's going to have a huge presence in bu

a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future. Francois Hollande I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers. Tina Turner Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals. Matthew Scully The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles. Azim Premji Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear. Janine di Giovanni Young singers are much better educated

economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy. Christina Romer The only thing major labels can really offer is money. Conor Oberst I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. Steven Chu A day lays low and lifts up again all human things. Sophocles Here comes 40. I'm feeling my age and I've ordered the Ferrari. I'm going to get the whole mid-life crisis package. Keanu Reeves I'd like to see Paris before I die... Philadelphia will do. W. C. Fields But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. Harry Houdini I liked to play dress-up. Vanessa Paradis When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside. Amy Klobuchar

where it's a strong emotion. Whether she's crying or she's angry or she's - whatever emotion she's feeling I actually think that she's feeling it and I want to hug her and make it all better. Kay Panabaker The more you own, the more you know you don't own. Aristotle Onassis Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held. Aldous Huxley I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it. Rachel Bilson God gives some more than others because some accept more than others. Ernest Holmes The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work. Alex Ferguson My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday. Roddy McDowall At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. Andrew Wyeth For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that