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The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow

of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg. Sean M. Carroll I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do. Darren Criss The support this city and our fans have shown the Grizzlies made my decision to stay in Memphis an easy one. Memphis deserves a championship team, and I am committed to that. Jerry West If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing. Felicity Jones I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down. Chris Tucker On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence...

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian

religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air. James Lovelock I don't like people cleaning my room. Larry David Being as versatile as I am, I take offense to the notion that no serious musician would not be doing a late night talk show gig. One has to be open enough in other areas to be able to contribute to a show like this. Kevin Eubanks Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. Valerie Bertinelli I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier. Elizabeth Vargas Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's fe...

And there is no getting away from the fact - and this is a key

point of discontent among many who are upset with the health care reform bill is it didn't go far enough. They say why isn't it in place now? Why don't I see some benefits now? All I see is the potential for losing insurance coverage, for premiums going up. That's hurting Obama. Juan Williams I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls. Emma Watson I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations. Stephen Fry My favorite types of movies to watch as a viewer are thrillers - I really have a soft spot for them, I love them. Especially psychological thrillers. Alex Karpovsky What is writing but an expression of my own life? Zane Grey People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair. Billy Graham New Yorkers are ei...

First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But

having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives. Robert Crais Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. Jacques Barzun For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. Tahar Ben Jelloun As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid. Michael K. Williams I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot. Gabriela Sabatini Only dumb people are happy. Courtney Love I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred. H. G. Bissinger I don't suffer of anything that I've lost. Arnold Schwarzenegger I like women who are self...

The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal

devotion. Both parents were highly cultured and instilled in us their high appreciation of intellectual pursuit. It was, however, a typical Victorian style of life, all decisions being taken by the head of the family, the husband and father. Rita Levi-Montalcini The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love. Aubrey O'Day My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective. Tim Robbins A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters. Ian K. Smith There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business. Anna Chlumsky I'm very good at having time off. I tend to ta...

President Obama has outsourced a major portion of the U.S. space program to the Russians.

That's national policy. Taxpayer money. So let's stop playing games with this outsourcing distortion and talk about the fact that when we need is a president that knows how to manage big enterprise and create jobs. John Sununu I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. David Friedman O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys. Patrick Ewing If you write enough, you begin to learn to do things. But in a way, you do start from zero each time. James Salter And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics. William Joyce If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. Alan Rickman I like black because it is a vacant space. Lady Gaga It...

You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment

by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play. Mike Lee I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds. Analeigh Tipton The conservative revival cannot be dismissed. Christopher Lasch Look at things... as they can be. David Joseph Schwartz Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground. Ezra Koenig Yes, across the board, these gentlemen understand they have the power to make a difference and even educate people to injustices that are occurring in their worlds. Alexis Arguello In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable. Shawn Ryan It's a gre...

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they

miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. Andrew Motion When you go to the movie theater and the opening of this movie and you see the kids just cracking up with a character you are giving your voice to, you get goose bumps. It's so beautiful. Antonio Banderas I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies. Jet Li When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case? Anna Kendrick One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period. William Clay Ford, Jr. My buildings don't spe...

A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept

to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What happens if you start controlling the behavior of criminals or people in general with software-running machines? Those questions, they look like they're sci-fi but they're not. Jose Padilha Every comic is really a frustrated rock star. Alex Borstein My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally. Seamus Heaney I used to tweet about the most mundane things - like 'I just bought a soya latte' - but now I try and make it a bit more interesting. Evan Williams I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life. Devon Aoki I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me. Selena Gomez I long for, not...

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be

on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it. Jesse Tyler Ferguson Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way. Paul Lynde I'm a New York story. Steve Madden I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed. Jessica Lynch Movies are like magic tricks. Jeff Bridges When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion. Annie Leibovitz Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me. Alberto Giacometti Even though I h...

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I

was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. Anne Lamott I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war. John Motson Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories. Chris Van Hollen Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody. Ted Bell I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. Ken Livingstone I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various ...

Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a

lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education. Jim Brown The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin. Jenny Shipley I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that. Denise Mina I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy. Grant Bowler I would rather have not gone through any of the litigation that I've had to go through. Sienna Miller Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. Marian Wright Ed...

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact

within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way. Gelsey Kirkland And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years. Lynn Redgrave The worst headline is one that contains a factual error. Bad headlines are ones that are bland, and don't tell the reader anything specific, like 'Democrats at it Again.' Jennifer Lee Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along. Richard Widmark I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on. Ben Bradlee Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church. Sandra Oh Because you don't live near a bakery doesn...

I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it,

and making it like a little doll's house with little things inside it, staircases and rooms and everything kind of relates to everything else. I've never seen it as drums, bass, guitar and vocals in very separate spaces. Imogen Heap You're a good man, Charlie Brown. Charles M. Schulz Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. Thomas Sowell In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles. Abdus Salam Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect. Murray Gell-Mann In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. John Sergeant Wise We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Edu...

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics

at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2. Danica McKellar When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or... what happened?' Cecily von Ziegesar Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am. Harry Mathews I honestly think that in five years time, television will be watched on computer screens anyway and you'll be doing multiple things. You'll be 'IMing' while you're watching a show and checking the news. Mark Burnett Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. Paul Valery Honestly, I am always shocked when I see m...

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to

do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit. Bill Kristol The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks? Jonathan Raban The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic. Queen Rania of Jordan When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning. Alexis Arguello I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun. Joe Manchin One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me. Ricky Williams The act of willing this or that, of choosing a...

I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of

the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created. Michael Lee-Chin Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. Dennis Prager The most daring thing is to be yourself and to do exactly what you want to do at that point in time and not to be worried with what other people are doing or what's popular. Wiz Khalifa Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas. Gary Paulsen For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything. Kenneth Noland I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have ...

I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built

relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store. Olivier Theyskens My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them. Ahmet Zappa I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23. Dominic Chianese There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be. Famke Janssen To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy. Keith O'Brien When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me,...

I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a

poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter. Maurice Sendak For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks. George Pataki I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer. Emeli Sande I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus. Tony Orlando Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated. St...

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking

at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different. Robert Harris But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization. David Korten In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose. Alfred Marshall If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction. Mitch McConnell Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid. Neil Patrick Harris You spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out! Matthew Goode ...

Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some

spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of flaky - New Agey, you know? Which is partly why I'm suspicious of that sort of thing. I'm skeptical of any spiritual practice that doesn't involve other people and doesn't involve some sort of consistent tradition. Mary Karr It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad. Daryl Hannah In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure. Paul Gillmor I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time. Bjork If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time. Arthur Blank In a democracy, power is not permanent. Lalu Prasad Yadav God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for th...

So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because

I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree. Gayle King I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too. Rick Danko Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things. Anja Rubik There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.' Tamara Ecclestone There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads. Armstrong Williams Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a...

I believe that the far-right and the far-left can be equally insane - but there's

no question that in the first years of the Obama administration, the far-right has been far crazier. In part, this comes from parties being out of power - without the responsibility of governing to ground them, the activists and the ideologues take over. John Avlon As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role. Lynn Redgrave The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat. Dorothy Thompson Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can. John Boyd Orr The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. Billy Wilder Word of mouth works now, much more than ever. @-reply every single person. Gary Vaynerchuk I don't do proud. David Bailey Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you. Walter Winc...

My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and

I actually think it's a much harder schedule because you've got to do it eight times a week and you've got to do it good eight times a week and with different kinds of audiences who are cold or drunk or tired, whatever it is. Zoe Kazan The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. Arto Lindsay My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life. Taylor Momsen My childhood was a happy one, spent in a tall house in South Kensington and later in East Sussex, but my early and mid teens were less successful. Julian Fellowes I did try to go to college and try to be an English major. Hamish Linklater Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted. Barbara Bush Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. Douglas Coup...

I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I

would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them. Evander Holyfield We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too. Jurgen Klinsmann I want to have the freedom to do whatever I want. Paul Walker Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research. Ike Skelton I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. Edward Norton I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after. Larry David After the Ramo...

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line

will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing. Billy Collins The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. Arthur Helps You could tell that America was gearing up for war. Jack Adams Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. Victoria Woodhull I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head. Dennis Crowley Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits. Rand Paul When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.' Susan Sarandon Two ...

I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S.

at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. - as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil. Dilma Rousseff So I would say Reagan was the best, and certainly Clinton the worst. Pat Boone It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life. Edward Carpenter Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever! Kate Moss There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers. Robert Orben I've been called a lot of things. Terry McAuliffe I just want to be the best Carly Rae I can be. Carly Rae Jepsen You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardiz...

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of

grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on. Meghan O'Rourke Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call. Saul Perlmutter We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer. Robbie Keane We have a country that is in a very delicate situation. Ezer Weizman Our theology is still in a time of crisis, and I think this will last for some years more. Godfried Danneels I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home. Rod Stewart Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. Irwin Shaw Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat. Tim Tebow A writer has to live with a sense of honor. Irwin Shaw To sing a simple round is...

Human bodies are designed for regular physical activity. The sedentary nature of much of modern

life probably plays a significant role in the epidemic incidence of depression today. Many studies show that depressed patients who stick to a regimen of aerobic exercise improve as much as those treated with medication. Andrew Weil The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple. Douglas Conant Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most novelists have at least a chance of a revival. Jane Smiley I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together. Victoria Justice I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried. Jason Aldean I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people. Roger Ebert I treated it like every day was my last...

One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who

are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me. Alison Sweeney Rich people march on Washington every day. I. F. Stone But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect. Alison Lohman The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent. Barry White Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country. Zachary Quinto It's not just the right-wing crazies who oppose health reform. In addition, there are many sane Americans who worry about committing ...

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.'

This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. A. J. Liebling I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. Manny Pacquiao I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A. Jonathan Haidt I am a big 'Ellen' fan. I have been one for quite a long time now. I used to do the local news talk shows with her in San Francisco, when we were both still kids. Margaret Cho I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey. Lara Stone I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates. Ivana Trump I can remember every outfit I wore to every party g...

'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is

like every other problem. They all get solved in an hour. Nobody ever gets hurt, and nobody needs to care. You give up an hour of your time, and you don't really have to get involved. It's all plastic. David Gerrold Style applies to a lifestyle. It's not about being told this is trendy, you must do it. Now people have more access than ever before. Stacy London I like to pick my causes and not be forced into doing something. Tiger Woods It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military. Colin Powell I'm a Detroit player, they set styles. Big Sean I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood. Aravind Adiga After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes. John Owen In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I ...

The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by

Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was. Callie Khouri I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like. Mads Mikkelsen For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late. David F. Houston In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Tony Visconti There is no country that has the best men. Alicia Machado I grew up with a lot of boys. I pro...

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or

because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others. Heather Wilson I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. Andrew Motion I just want to have fun. Victoria Azarenka This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors. Placido Domingo I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs. Tyne Daly When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. Jim Henson I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand f...

I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported

by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically. Carl Paladino After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much. Mary Cheney To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance. Paul Engle I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view. Dan Brown Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating. Miranda Lambert During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times. Bobby Knight I think when judges are in the position of authority, they re...

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with

other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security. Joe Lieberman When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing. Michelle Branch It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing. Martin Fleischmann Before I did 'How I Met Your Mother,' I was not considered a comedic actress. Cobie Smulders I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. Carolyn Wells I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure. Alle...

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the

more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work! Joyce Maynard Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them. A. S. Byatt I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me. Patty Duke Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says. Jack Reed Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm. Rowan Williams The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues. Ronnie Wood There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-...

Not yet, but I do wanna work with Leona Lewis. I love her, she's so

sweet! I think she's working on her album as well so I'd love to do a nice powerful female duet with her. I think our voices would blend really well. There's a couple of other people I'd love to work with - like Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys. Jordin Sparks I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives. Candace Bushnell When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records. Gary Numan It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.' John Cage Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires...

People come up to me all the time and say, 'Oh, I love to watch

Food Network,' and I ask them what they cook, and they say, 'I don't really cook.' They're afraid, they're intimidated, they know all about food from eating out and watching TV, but they don't know where to start in their own kitchen. Michael Symon You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion. Jeff Daniels Write a page a day. It will add up. Herman Wouk St. Louis is more humid. But after a while, the heat started taking a toll on us, so we started rotating a little more up front trying to stay fresh out here. Leonard Little A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay. Dan Savage Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial. Ariel Sharon I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. Molly Ringwald...

There was a time in my 40s where I thought, oh, it's all over -

not just work, but I'm never going to feel young again, I'm always going to feel like I know what's going to happen, I'll know what to expect. Looking back I don't know if that was a midlife crisis, I don't know - but I don't feel that now. There's possibilities. It gets better. Paul Weller I wish I didn't have to live up to anything. Christine Baranski I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. John McGahern Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego. Greg LeMond I don't want my tombstone to say actress. I want it to say human being. Laurie Holden My life is pretty much an open book. Jeff Conaway I could cook from quite an early age - purely because I liked it. Jamie...

The original idea of blog publishing was that writer and reader would be on the

same level. That it would be a conversation - not a lecture. People lost sight of that. We didn't. Kinja is designed to break down the walls of the ghettos. So that everybody - editor, writer, source, subject, expert, fan - can be a contributor. Nick Denton Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas. Bodhidharma We did 'Erin Brockovich', we did 'Man on the Moon', we did 'Living Out Loud', but now I'm going to keep going. Danny DeVito Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about. Stephen Moyer I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.' Benny Blanco Business news is...

Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for

a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years. And since then, the Democrats haven't lost a single statewide fight. Howie Carr If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.' Trey Parker I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie. Wayne Coyne The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on. Brad Pitt I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot spec...

I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the

TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission. John Pistole Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. Toni Morrison A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right. John Dos Passos We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another. Katherine Heigl What I'm looking for is a self-promoting film; a movie which immediately gets people's imagination is something I can promote - a project which writes its own publicity. Jeremy Thomas As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government. Theodore Bikel There is no substitute for victory. Dougl...

The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you

become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful. Heather Brooke Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential. Noam Chomsky In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it. Rashida Jones Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks. Nicholas Stern What I've always thought I would do is make a bunch of movies and then stop to teach for awhile. And then just teach at film schools - you know, teach children. Eli Roth I'm the ...

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network,

not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do. David Cameron Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it. Jody Watley Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement. Leland Ryken You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes. Vivienne Westwood You must have love as the core; it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go. Kenny Loggins If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. Marcel Proust When I get out... if I get out of here, I hope that maybe we can get back together and have more kids. Susan Smith Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. William J. Mayo Remaining chi...

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