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When I run into a person or a kid that comes up and gives me

the spiel about, 'Hey, I got your record at this time in my life, and it really helped me,' that stuff totally still rings true. If you're standing there talking to someone, it's really easy to tell if they're being authentic or not. And that's great. Conor Oberst I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people. Maynard Webb I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work. Johanna Lindsey But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment. Debbie Harry He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches. Marla Maples I regard freedom of expression as

I see people having fits because their coffee is too hot or their baked potato

is too cold, or some random something is imperfect and somebody can be blamed for it. These people can fly off the handle and nobody says, 'Too much beef will do that to a person.' If it's a vegan: a clear case of alfalfa sprout poisoning. Victoria Moran I believe that the whole human race is the family of God. Pat Buckley I mean, I love being with friends and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it's hard to find someone who doesn't ultimately start judging you and your choices. Sarah Silverman I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful. Kevin Systrom Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. Paul Nurse I started a theater company when I was 17. Stephen Moyer I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish. Debi Thomas First of all, you can make the

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for

myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore. Lupe Fiasco Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. Vladimir Nabokov The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads. John Grisham It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed. Ruth J. Simmons I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years. Terry Goodkind Theaters are great.

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a

really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that. Anna Kendrick I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience. Quentin Tarantino I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me. Peter Fonda I'm named after a horse. My mom's best friend had a horse named Brooke, so my dad suggested 'Brooklyn' as a more formal version, and it just stuck - and now I live in Brooklyn part-time, so go figure. Brooklyn Decker Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early. Rita Dove M

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to

be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. Lewis Thomas God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing me to be born in the United States of America. Ben Carson I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches. Sachin Tendulkar I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands. Scoot McNairy I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents. Betty Grable You don't question where the music comes from, because it all comes from God. Timbaland A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in

The designers usually don't like to say until we're on the runway. Like when I

did Prada last year, I couldn't mention doing Prada or even Tweet or take a picture and put it on Twitter saying I was backstage at the Prada show. And Dolce was the same thing. They like to keep a little surprise, I guess, a little secret for everybody. Alessandra Ambrosio It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know. Laura Linney You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor. Alice Englert My favorite holiday spot has to be New York, on the St. Lawrence River. Without a doubt that area there is perfect for me. Very, very spacious. It's nice. Tom Felton The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. Anatole France A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the ci

We have got to make sure there is proper independent scrutiny and accountability for people

in the press, just as there should be in any other industry where things go wrong. But let's not try and think it is for politicians or governments to tell people what they stick in newspapers. That is deeply illiberal. Nick Clegg I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. Agnes Macphail If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football. Steve Sabol People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job. Samantha Morton I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman. Vera Wang Well, I'm a Catholic by birth and you can never shed it. Morrissey So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, aft

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and

twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow. Junot Diaz I don't like to dwell on the past. Tina Turner Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant. Bill Nelson My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave. Tahar Ben Jelloun The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. Lucian Freud One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat. Ingrid Newkirk In planning an attack, persons have various roles. Robert Mueller I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left. Britt Ekl

Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally

and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work. Thomas Kean, Jr. Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out! Ben Affleck I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war. Peter Abelard So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly. Austan Goolsbee I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things. Gerhard Richter I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary p

I was literally told for 'The Show Goes On' that I shouldn't rap too deep.

I shouldn't be too lyrical. It just needs to be something easy on the eyes. Like a record company telling Picasso that we don't need these abstract interpretations of life, where people have to sit down and look at it and break it down. Lupe Fiasco I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters. Michael Sheen As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch. Judd Nelson I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world. Dorothy Hamill I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview. Fareed Zakaria It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more. Brett Favre I hate 'The Professional.' It's one of the worst action/adventure movies

Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I

did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted. Ving Rhames Shakespeare would never have gone far in today's politically correct world. John Sununu Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense. Nate Silver And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy. Mel Tillis Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words. Paul Kantner In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed. Iain Banks Oh, if I had on

Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about

myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older. Lisa Edelstein I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star. Brian Chesky I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now. Matthew Lewis I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't. Chris Zylka He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice. Michael Kinsley Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a go

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your

mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. Dada Vaswani Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true. Alice Cooper Time hurries by, we're here and gone. Howard Dietz You can tell someone who doesn't have love in their life, then someone who is in love. Janet Jackson What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not? Salmon P. Chase I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion. Tony Campolo The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football. Dick Butkus An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives t

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic.

It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss. James Belushi I love playing ego and insecurity combined. Jim Carrey I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday. Jane Goodall I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city. Alexei Sayle Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion. Xun Kuang I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books. Nick Cave Long live your laundry! Billy Mays As someone from a developing co

I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it

more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment. Molly Parker But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. John Drinkwater An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use. J. G. Ballard When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges. Willem Dafoe Business is at the heart of America and always has been. David A. Siegel There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers. Joe Mantegna I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone. Sal Mineo I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him. Robyn Hitchcock I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit. Greg Kinnear

I have high heels in my bags if I need them for a shoot. But

I like sneakers. I like being comfortable. I like to sit on the floor with my team and work. I don't like to sit in fancy chairs. It's really important to the culture of my company that people understand who they're working for. Bobbi Brown I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us. James De La Vega I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face. Faith Prince I like doing movies that relate to people's experience. Illeana Douglas I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here. Andy Hertzfeld You don't really ever think you're that crazy p

I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992.

I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective. Daley Thompson When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays. James Cronin I've always kind of lived in my own world. Meg White The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom. Max von Sydow Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children. John Sununu I suppose if I were younger, I would be investing in Africa. Julian Robertson A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it'

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that

aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented in the media, in film in particular, it is presented as something that is really a special event, whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic. Renee Fleming Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money. Hilary Rosen I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that. Floyd Abrams It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted. Harrison Ford Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating? Bryant H. McGill I'm constantly busy. Norman Reedus You can be

What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing.

We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere. Jane Seymour The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place. Evan Davis I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have. Loretta Lynn Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation. Charles B. Rangel Twitter should ban my mother. Frances Bean Cobain With any role, you're extending yourself and acting out things that never happened to you. Tom Hiddleston Gerry Mulligan and C

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an

adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. J. K. Rowling Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting. Matthew Lillard The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now. Seth MacFarlane The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to. Ken Kesey In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer. Francis Ford Coppola Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great. Jennifer Aniston If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life o

You find a lot of junk when you're searching through lost and tossed photo ephemera,

but every so often you'll find a gem, a wallet-sized masterpiece you're certain could hang on the wall of a gallery if only someone with a name had taken it. Find one or two of those and you're hooked for life. Ransom Riggs There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink. Ida Rentoul Outhwaite I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole. Wes Anderson There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you. Jeffrey Kluger More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Righ

I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one

deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.' Stacy Schiff Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate. Sarah Caldwell I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song. Bruno Mars You know, nobody can ever cook as good as your mama. Paula Deen Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. George Savile I love being in a courtroom. Kamala Harris Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy. Karl Liebknecht Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Vic

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out

of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous. Edmund Hillary I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances. Myron Scholes We don't have nannies and all that, we look after our own kids. It's just what you do. If you want a big family that's just what you do, isn't it? Ray Winstone Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others. Roscoe Conkling I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. B. B. King In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indiffer

I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when

I was three. It was called 'creative movement.' The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, 'Now go dance.' So for me, dance has always been about self-expression. Carrie Ann Inaba When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew. Bryce Dallas Howard Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change. Jeff Goodell Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not. Frederick Pollock Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister. Alexander Downer Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing. Alan Ball When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it. Lucas

In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow

- and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted. Zac Efron I never want anyone to have a bad evening because I caused it. Doug Morris 'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne. Carey Mulligan I get constant reminders from fans who equate that game and my career as one and the same. Wilt Chamberlain Listen, I have a great affection and respect for Joe Biden. I think he's been a great vice president. He's taken on a lot of tough assignments for our administration. David Axelrod I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star. Jerry Reed But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which

It's something that people relate to - and I hope my kid doesn't relate to

- but there's a level of believability in playing complex characters. You know, Christopher Walken has done some hilarious comedies, De Niro. There's great room for complexity and darkness to do well in comedies. Jeremy Sisto Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines. Tommy Mottola Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character. Gaspard Ulliel It's not the extremes and the treats that are the problem. It's the everyday. Jamie Oliver I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed. Patrick Duffy I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it. Patrick Macnee I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own. Meg Cabo

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop

artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet. Michael Winslow All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. Anton Chekhov I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man. Billy Graham Nobody criticised me when we qualified for the World Cup when I decided that the best shape for us going forward was three men at the back and stretching the pitch width-wise, which gives you options. Glenn Hoddle Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not. Rod Stewart I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war.

I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm

attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies. Willem Dafoe I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail. John Bolton Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management. Jim Loehr Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate. Stephen Tobolowsky I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive? Carlos Fuentes I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest. Tamar Braxton We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Dora Russell I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be

I was shocked cause I didn't even know that they made my jersey. I didn't

know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, 'Did they customize that?' And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must've made them overnight or something. Jeremy Lin Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies. Andrew Weil Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death. Lady Gregory Peace without justice is tyranny. William Allen White I am a passport-carrying citizen of the E.U. Conrad Black The world wants to like America. Feisal Abdul Rauf I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action. Illeana Douglas I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

There's a belief that since Africa got a raw deal from the colonial West, then

the Chinese must be Africa's best friend. But the evidence doesn't show that, and the main criticism is that they are building infrastructure in exchange for Africa's resources in deals that are structured to favor China. George Ayittey Women like being kissed. Rod Stewart In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. William James You're always playing the game to reach the ultimate goal. Tony Romo When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on! Demian Bichir Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle. Aiden Wilson Tozer Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. John Abizaid Plant diseases, drought, desol

I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because

I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished. Apolo Ohno The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language. Edward Sapir If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart. Cristina Saralegui I'm a writer and this is what I love to do. Gloria Estefan Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are. Rachel Hunter The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even remember the recession of 2001, let alone the previous one. Nouriel Roubini I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told. Jay Kay I always wanted to ha

When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When

I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football. Andriy Shevchenko I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books. Eric Jerome Dickey Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home. Nawal El Saadawi We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children. Norma McCorvey My grandmother sang, too, and she was really loud. It was this wild kind of singing. I count her among my influences. Cassandra Wilson It came as a surprise t

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an

ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. James Wolcott We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator. Ted Cruz I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits. Kylie Minogue With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all. Tana French Education prepares to be one piece of a machine. Sugata Mitra When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you? Jim Bakker There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that wor

I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert

with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end. Ben Silbermann You and I are players, God's our coach, and we're playing the biggest game of all. We have a loving God that made us. We need to get on His team. It says in His word, there's only one way to Him and that's through Jesus Christ. Joe Gibbs In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children. Charles W. Pickering Art really is something very difficult. It is difficult to make, and it is sometimes difficult for the viewer to understand. It is difficult to work out what is art and what is not art. Anselm Kiefer Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor

keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance. Michel Gondry In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it. David Wells I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. Rand Paul Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you - work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you. Shakti Gawain It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them. David Hockney If you look across the valley, you can see exactly

All through my life, I didn't really consider my eyes at all, and then I

became an actress. It's great, I guess. They're just in my face, and one is green and one is blue. It's different, and I'm definitely a proponent of being different in any way you can in life, so I guess if you're born a bit different that's a good thing. Alice Eve I like fighters who come to fight. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. Marguerite Gardiner As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like. Billy Eckstine Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. Arthur Schopenhauer I just like to think rather than talk. But I enjoy everyone's company. Thia Megia There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to

Men like to provide for women and their families. It's in their DNA. I'm obviously

no scientist, but I bet if you could hear a Y-chromosome talk, it would say, 'I want to provide and hunt.' When the woman is the primary breadwinner, it's going against nature. I'm not saying that it's bad or wrong, I'm just saying that it can feel off. Patti Stanger I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point? Nancy Meyers Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering. Nikki Reed In order to stay where I am - and I want to do that - I have to stay dedicated as well as I have been before I became No. 1. Novak Djokovic I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community. Lady Gaga Attending ComicCon for 'Arrow' was so much fun! Seeing the fans excited gets me excited and feels really good. Katie Cassidy You can observe a lot

There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are

key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having. Mike Mills I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. Julia Louis-Dreyfus I feel great identification with the developing world. Bianca Jagger Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish. Sophie Ellis-Bextor One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. Thomas Mann Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much. Nigel Mansell The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like ma

When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involving all

four limbs, and you're hearing stuff and you're converting your ideas into physical motions, getting physical feedback from things you are touching - it's pretty cool. It's a really a nice contrast to writing. Michael Azerrad The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches. Tony Kushner If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship. Grimes As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year. Matthew Macfadyen On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough. James Surowiecki I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered. Kelli Garner Politics is the art of controlling your environment. Hunter S. Thomps

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no

one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different. Mindy Kaling You can't get away from who you are I guess. Mark Edwards The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking. Arthur Godfrey The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey. Recep Tayyip Erdogan There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love. Stirling Moss I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year o

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't

approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.' Archie Panjabi Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations. Jacky Ickx We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually. Rahm Emanuel The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life. Karl Jaspers I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated. Valentino Garavani I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's stagg

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have

been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions. Kevin Rudd My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France. Diane von Furstenberg It's been sanctioned by the courts, and I accept that. Gary Gilmore I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. James Joyce I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone. David Karp There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake. Todd Barry Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal. Robert Sheckley I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race. Giancarlo Esposito I totally believe in romance and love and all that. Rashida Jones When I was in high school in St. Louis my best friend was Marsha Mason. Marsha was a year ahead of me. Mary Frann

We have a song like 'Ready to Love Again' that is really, really special to

me. It's the one that I relate to the most. It's very personal, so we really allowed ourselves to go there and be vulnerable and show the fans that we feel and we hurt and we love just like anybody else does. I hope they feel that when they hear it. Hillary Scott Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes. Mark Wahlberg As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page. Jhonen Vasquez I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced. Lesley Stahl I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love. Andre Leon Talley I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a

I think that just because the show is titled 'Awkward Black Girl' and it is

a predominantly black cast doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to relate to these people. We're all human beings. We all essentially go through the same things when it comes down to it, so I don't I think that should limit who watches it. Issa Rae It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that. T Bone Burnett We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time. Craig Johnston I would like to establish myself. I don't want to just have a moment. Amanda Seyfried It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you. Camryn Manheim I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. S

With the discovery of vast new North American energy resources - thanks to the application

of proven technologies like hydraulic fracturing and commonsense regulatory processes on non-federal lands - the U.S. government should no longer be in the business of spending taxpayer dollars on risky, exotic energy projects. Fred Upton And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school. Travis Barker You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you. David Ogden Stiers I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. John Barton I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible. Sam Taylor-Wood Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. Malcolm X I'm not invited to the Vanity Fair dinner where they watch the Osca

Generally speaking, I'm a jeans, T-shirt and boots man but I do own an Armani

suit, which gets a regular outing. It's nothing fancy - just a classic, well-cut suit with clean lines and beautiful tailoring. It's timeless and you can mix and match it with anything to dress up or dress down. Matthew Rhys To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous. John Hewson If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people. Richard Stengel A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions. William Kingdon Clifford Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism. Imre Lakatos I was so scared of going back to the theatre after 'Hamlet.' I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it. Alan Cumming The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl,

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity

to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point. Martina Navratilova I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me. Keanu Reeves Where the senses fail us, reason must step in. Galileo Galilei The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter. Eric Bana In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train. Tina Brown I think my putting could be better, my short game. Deron Williams In order for me to have fun, I have to be able to not be buttoned down. Margo Martindale Cure for an obsession: get another one. Mason Cooley I didn't binge when I was pregnant. B

When you're an actor in grade school, high school, college, whatever, you start to realize

what you're really good at, what you're kinda good at, what you're okay at, and you start to compartmentalize. But if you know yourself and what you're capable of, it's just a matter of opportunity. Bryan Cranston Getting to travel around the world and go to glamorous locations is certainly not what I had as a kid. Naomie Harris Life in California is beautiful. Oscar Nunez My body is a baby machine. Kristin Scott Thomas The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer. Christopher Darden That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want. Picabo Street On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice. Tom Daschle If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party. Ellen Malcolm I would like to have seen my sons growing up. Aung San Suu Kyi I work in an industry where everyone is flawlessly

I use many different gadgets connected with computers; I use PCs, laptops and a Palm

Pilot. I also use the Internet to visit websites, especially within Polish-language Internet. I usually go to political discussion groups and sites - of course, as I use my real name, people never believe that they are chatting with me! Lech Walesa I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next. Fred Saberhagen I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. Max von Sydow Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait. Nick Lampson If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. J

I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good

that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it. Brian Jacques Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice. Lactantius Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous. Lawrence M. Krauss As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies. Harvey Mackay To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. Charles Bukowski I don't hate them any more like I used to. I just don't like them very much. Norma McCorvey I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie. Joss Stone What Obama is sayin

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A

world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. Jonathan Sacks When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal. Paul Simon I was very willing to take on controversial roles that people didn't really want to look at. Rosie Perez I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills the bacteria and makes them not smell anymore. Benny Blanco I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place. Joe Mantegna I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music. Stephen Sondheim OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, s

Go to a wig store with your girlfriends, never by yourself. You need someone to

say, 'Girl that looks good!' You need someone to encourage you to try pieces on. Try to purchase a wig close to your natural hair color as possible, don't come in with brown hair and try to leave as a redhead unless you are fine with that! Sherri Shepherd I like to make collages - paper collages. Rachel True Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook. Ferran Adria The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy. Mischa Barton Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment. Samantha Power I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to

the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.' Gotye For me, I wanted somebody that got me musically, that understood that I'm an artist and this is who I am. I'm not going to be like another artist on your label, probably - hopefully. I found all those things with the Broken Bow group. Joe Nichols I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. Charlaine Harris My biggest dream for this company is to restore it - to bring Time Warner back to the position that I think it once had and, even better than that, to make it the greatest company in the media and entertainment world. Richard Parsons I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. Cornel West Becau

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans -

and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise. Charlie Crist When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting, 10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread. Kellan Lutz When I do get free time, I spend a lot of it at home with my family and my close friends and I think that's what keeps me happy, healthy, grounded, and totally in check. Leighton Meester English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did. Malcolm Bradbury The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny. Bobby Brown Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and

The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for

products and processes that are not truly innovative - things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection? Robert Pozen When I started out I was a failed actor. David Mamet I try to persuade people to act in ways that are not only in their own interest, but in the interest of society at large. Eric Schlosser It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces. Lewis Thomas Tall people have a real advantage in the world. Chad Harbach I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff. Jason Schwartzman One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen. John Frankenheimer Before I had children, everything about my life was devoted to Saturday Night Live. Maya Rudo

On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The

plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids? Brad Meltzer I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. It defines life for me. It's all I've ever imagined for myself. Shelby Lynne The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike. Ralph Waldo Emerson What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport. Meghan O'Rourke I'll always be a foreigner. Olivier Martinez India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has. Nina Fedoroff I love the first Godfather movie, part one. And two. Mickey Rourke I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself? John Belushi R

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased

the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system. Donna Shalala I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it. Brie Larson I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am. Paulo Coelho Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit. Larry Elder A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate. Marion Bartoli

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate

cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. Alastair Campbell A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that. Laura Linney Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money. Gerald Brenan Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes. Steve Jobs I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an ac

I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know

that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washington Post' did get round to me eventually. Diana Gabaldon I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere. Greg Gutfeld You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation. Giuliana Rancic I've gotten to meet so many people who've inspired me as a human being. Kenny Chesney I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support. Kerry Healey The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs. Vito Fossella It is the inter

I like that 'Pitch Perfect' is one of my first forays into film and just

being seen in that kind of light, aside from some people who know me from 'Spring Awakening' or the other things that I've done. I think in so many ways it's kind of like my own 'Glee' or 'Smash'. Skylar Astin I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective. Nigel Dennis I'm going to continue to keep music number one. Ludacris I'd always dabbled in acting. Nelsan Ellis The league, I think, is doing well. It's growing, it's maturing, and it's becoming a better league. Cobi Jones Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking. Mason Cooley I'm a Giants fan through and through. I am crazy about Eli Manning. I'm all about the Giants. Jesse McCartney There's always a source for humor. Calvin Trillin When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation. Margaret

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region

from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure. Janet Napolitano I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people. Emma Caulfield I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do. Chen Guangcheng I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny. Tommy Hilfiger It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy. Cory Doctorow If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. Martin Luther That Days of Our Lives thing for a week nearly killed me. Lesley-Anne Down I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job. Christopher Parker My cancer continues

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one

of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character. Jeff Bridges By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. Brian Ferneyhough The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free. John Bruton When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business. Michael Ovitz Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing. Christian Bale I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit. Martin Short The Supreme Court has

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it

was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know. John Banville On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. Hu Shih Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way. Edie McClurg Every year we close 300-400 stores anyway, just relocations. Jim Cantalupo I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses. Walter Jon Williams Where were they when the Russians went down? Stacy Keach You may be surprised to discover you're rich, especially if you're broke. P. J. O'Rourke Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem wi

It's easy to look at the vampires as a metaphor for any feared or misunderstood

group. It's also easy to look at them as a metaphor for a shadow organization that says one thing and has a completely different agenda on their mind, and anybody who gets in their way, they just get rid of them. Does that sound familiar? Alan Ball I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal. James Welch When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills. Daniel Goleman My pop did a little time. Two Chainz I love going over to Europe. David Boreanaz Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone. Nathan Deal I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling

It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and

have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me. Bruce Cockburn A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. Federico Fellini I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them. Ted Allen I spoke Spanish when I was three, and then Maltese. I love dictionaries. I like foreigners. My dad moved every year before I was 14, and I learnt to like abroad. I'm not scared of change. John Lloyd I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living. Derek Fisher Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one. Julie Burchill

People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If

I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable. Martin Amis It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. Benito Mussolini These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate. Jacques Derrida The life of a startup is full of ups and downs, an emotional roller coaster ride that you can't quite imagine if you've spent your whole career in a corporation. Harvey Mackay In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel. Emily Procter To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness. Edmund Husserl For me no good food is il

Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of

the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre. John Podhoretz I'm not radical. Jack Kevorkian I really did grow up in a world where we were taught that crime doesn't pay and we stood up when the teacher came into the room. Stanley R. Jaffe The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent. Susan Rice You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes. Mikhail Baryshnikov I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily. Eric Topol I think that what drives most of us as human beings is the want for something. You might have a hope, or a big dream, or a goal that you haven't yet achieved. Rupert Friend I haven't really got much get up and go. I can't beli

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a

blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system. Jaron Lanier The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the promise of Almighty direction, and will find His Word in his greatest darkness. Francis Scott Key She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day. David O. Selznick I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid. Michael East High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental. Thomas Kinkade I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer. Lisa Guerrero I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel. Jerzy Kosinski I love hats! I collect vintage ones - I find them at antique shops in

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn

how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of. Mark Zuckerberg Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases. Henry Winkler George Bush doesn't care about black people. Kanye West Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit. Julie Mehretu To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life. Origen I'd sneak out of the house to meet girls at 3:30 a.m. Aidan Quinn I'm not sorry for who I am. Hayley Williams I'm sick of environmentalism. Tracey Ullman I think women who lead full lives are be

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about ten times more massive than the Earth. Dimitar Sasselov I always think my face is quite nondescript - it sort of fits in to any period. It's not really distinct enough for you to remember me from something. Kimberley Nixon I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously. Art Alexakis My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all. Eloise Mumford I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello. Karen DeCrow I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens. JWoww In my career as a d

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught

that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law. Kurt Vonnegut Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine. Rick Smolan I really like to rock it natural and let my hair go wild, but when I do style it, I slick all the hair over to one side with pins. It's either that or a messy bun. Tori Kelly There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.' Marvin Ammori Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive. Tove Lo People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change. Stephen Baldwin Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality. Rabih Alameddine From day one, since I was traded to the Clippers, the team has been amazing to not only me, but to my family.

I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there

wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology. Matthew Rhys I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth. Randy Newman When you break a sweat you just feel great. You've got your endorphins going. You feel better. You look better. And if you aren't able to get a workout in, try to find a steam room somewhere. You just look and feel so much better after a sweat. Nicole Scherzinger I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys. Edie Falco I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. Gianni Versace I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors. Nick Mancuso Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. Paulo Coelho My

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the

first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training. Vijay Sethupathi I remember auditioning for 'Moulin Rouge!,' the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so young: I was literally just out of college. Tobias Menzies When you have an opportunity to do a series, you want to stick it out. You don't know when you're going to get another one like that again. Cleavant Derricks I am a really great daughter. Millie Bobby Brown Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that - fight. Pep Guardiola You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. Ryan North When there is a ring on my finger, which is actually given to me, then I'll tell the world. Till then, no one can claim me. Priyanka Chopra You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced! Lydia Millet We are at a point in our nation's history w

I think you have to take each movie for its own value. There will be

those you'll roll your eyes over and others you can't wait to see. It all has to do with the intention. If someone's intention is just to make money and exploit something for profit, then it's not good. If it's thoughtfully done, the proof's in the pudding.Carrie-Anne Moss I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.John Delaney At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.Leonard Cohen I simply love coming to Chennai. My wife always complains, saying, 'You literally run at the mention of Chennai - I wonder what it is about that place!' I love how everyone is active here 24/7.

Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect

for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day. Tom Hanks The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. Jose Eduardo dos Santos I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it. Brian Harvey In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to. John Walters It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. Immanuel Kant When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that t

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be

a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened. James McAvoy I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time. Mitt Romney I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction. China Mieville I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent. Chloe Grace Moretz Listen to many, speak to a few. William Shakespeare I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks. Katee Sackhoff I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears. Tori Spelling I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not. Tommy Shaw As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thi

Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an

intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good. Tyra Banks It has endless possibilities, and but what we do with our arrangements, we move the borders of cello playing and discover new ways of new techniques of cello playing. Luka Sulic The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one. Christina Baker Kline OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people. Sam Yagan If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. Eric Kandel My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs. Richard Simmons I do love the music aspect of the Internet. The Inte

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine

this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security. Mary Landrieu I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. H. L. Mencken A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet. Eric S. Raymond The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do. Howard Dean Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. Paul Twitchell I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. Frit

I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim

in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by 'Jaws.' David Duchovny It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955. George Vecsey We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility. Carlos Slim No-one has ever called me a cool dude. I'm somewhere between geek and normal. Linus Torvalds I think in any relationship, even in the healthiest of relationships, we are all parents to each other at times. I think that's a normal, healthy sort of relationship. I think there are times when we're each a mother and a father when we need to be. Christopher Stanley I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will. Daisy Ridley If you've got a camera, go