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Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models

and approximately the same path? Theodore Gericault Sometimes you want to make your own experiences. Martina Hingis There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. Lawrence Wright I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party. Ed Gillespie We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance. Jay Weatherill Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms. Christine Pelosi I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. Dan Savage Let's be honest, I have enough money to never have to work again. Emma Watson Fans will come if you have a good prod

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.Mike SingletaryIn New York,

we tip everyone. We tip doormen, we tip cab drivers, and we tip bartenders at the bar. You'll get quite an evil eye if you don't leave a tip at the bar. Zach Braff On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre. Andrzej Wajda I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan. Nancy Pelosi I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really. Gareth Bale For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you. Charlie Fink Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't. Jesse Eisenberg If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it. Julie London Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me. Chris Lowe

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.Bob CousyStephen King once told me he

liked my writing. And that was great. Nelson DeMille A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. B. R. Ambedkar No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism. Joe Slovo It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble. Beth Henley Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running? Brendan Gleeson The flesh is the surface of the unknown. Victor Hugo It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things. Stephen Bayley I'm quite comfortable with being a geek. I've been a geek since high school. James Marsters

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from

an unhealthy relationship to food. Kris Carr I hope to be involved in a successful movie script. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! Mary Boykin Chesnut And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff. Willie Nelson I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. Emma Watson People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested. Lawrence M. Krauss If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden. MyAnna Buring I'm not fake in any way. Courteney Cox I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach. St. Vincent

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.Arne JacobsenToting around a

full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra. Vanessa Carlton I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough. Amy Chua For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required. John C. Reilly Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention. Ville Valo I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it. Abigail Washburn And I think it's true of any big organization... Bureaucracies and orga

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.Arthur

Honegger Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin. David Copperfield Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare. Dudley North I looked massive next to Ryan Seacrest! But I was lucky that I've never had anyone say, 'Jordin, you need to lose weight.' Jordin Sparks I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love. William Shatner The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made. Siobhan Davies Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks. Michel Onfray Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death. Lars Ulrich The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words. Alton Brown

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No

one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it. Emma Watson Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy. Jill Scott Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. Ivan Pavlov This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control. David Neeleman I'm glad to see the casual game play coming back now on the Internet, games that aren't violent, that aren't complex that you can sit down and you can have some fun. Nolan Bushnell When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal. Sean Durkin 'SNL' is our main priority because that was

When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and

guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home... piece of cake. James Marsters The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. Thom Mayne Any free meal is a good meal, you know? Joe Sakic Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. Ann Beattie If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. Naguib Mahfouz Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check. Bruno Mars But which is the stone that supports the bridge? Kublai Khan But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that. Lucy Hale I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it. Dennis Fra

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which

makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. Leland Stanford My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all. John Bolton A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect. Francois Fenelon When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that. Adam Carolla The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting. Rob Portman A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though. Orlando Bloom Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults,

so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. Gustav Stresemann It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show. George Kotsiopoulos I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school. Kelly Preston Most people are nice and just want to have a chat. Ben Nicholas But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play. Alicia Keys I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. Cyndi Lauper I would like to be married and have kids. I would like to do that... Yes, I could see me settling down at some point. Kenny Chesney I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals. Rosie O'Donnell Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor. Lawrence Welk

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.David Alan GrierHe who confesses magic or sorcery shall do

penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin. Saint Basil I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows. Lana Parrilla Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves. Sean Durkin The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo. Jerry Yang And one thing about Mick Jagger is he keeps his eye very closely on not only where the dollars go but where the pennies go. Michael Lindsay-Hogg What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't. Morrissey Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up. Judith Guest I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away.

First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or

a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction. Saxby Chambliss My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with. Gary McCord You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't. Brit Hume The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet. William Wiley The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing. Janice Dickinson Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh. Will Ferrell I'm a lifelong bachelor, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't marry the right woman. Richard Roeper There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually. Robert Anton Wilson Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe

with anybody in a conversation. Megan Fox I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do. Michael Bloomberg There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment. Marat Safin America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls. Bill Bryson There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places. Chaka Fattah This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment. Kate Millett The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped. William Hague But I was very much into sports when I was a child. Eva Herzigova I don't want to expose the

Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business

woman. Karolina Kurkova Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves. James Young I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math. Christina Hendricks The one thing I've learned about friends is that the good ones are rare. Lauren Conrad I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths. George Carey Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much. Catherine Deneuve I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds. Carnie Wilson I'm not a political comed

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.David

Spade Good music is good music, but it has to be good. Vikram Seth I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that. Patrick Dempsey I believe Americans have a strong work ethic. Tim Scott I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones. Dan Deacon I write arrangements. I'm sort of a wannabe composer. Joshua Bell When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous. Tim Robbins Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand. Jack London Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform. Susan B. Anthony

The mountains are calling and I must go.John Muir'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole,

is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone. Harry Connick, Jr. Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered. Mason Cooley I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's faces instead of just running away all the time. Mika Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God. Joel C. Rosenberg Journalism classes would have been interesting to me. Adam Scott I enjoyed debate on the floor but it's not really debate in the same way. Geraldine Ferraro Touring gets really lonely. Kelly Osbourne It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. Nick Cave

It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both

faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity. Rowan Williams The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests. Breyten Breytenbach Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered. Phoebe Snow Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. Shah Rukh Khan I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life. Mstislav Rostropovich One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move. Marat Safin My former wife is a truly wonderful person. Burt Lancaster The death of the forest is the end of our life. Dorothy Stang I've done a lot of things with theater that I'

I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I

sing, but I do make up for it when I come off! Bonnie Tyler It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean. Kim Clijsters Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life. Lisa Loeb There is no accountability today... no willingness to focus on big ideas. Michael Bloomberg The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority. John T. Flynn Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof. Wallace Stevens I wouldn't care if they tattoo Festus all over. He's been good to me. Ken Curtis The elements which are the most widely diffused have

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.Vivienne WestwoodI

sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at. Sarah McLachlan Well, it's very clear that the Arab population is rising because they'd like to have a say in the running of their affairs, running of their government, and this is very legitimate. Al-Waleed bin Talal Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. Benoit Mandelbrot Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days. Gene Simmons People never believe you. J. D. Salinger Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. Simone Weil In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. Robert G

A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in

the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they'll show up at another show and they'll have their tattoo. Jared Leto I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did. John Forsythe The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year. Davy Jones I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible. David Copperfield Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. Mason Cooley I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like. Rachel Kushner I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen. Lou Reed It was a hard time. It was something I would love to erase from my memory. Rafael Palmeiro I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that. David Guterson

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it

has an urgency to it. Neil Young Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong. David Icke Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds. Saadi For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. Diablo Cody The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better. Diana Vreeland Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation. Conrad Black In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. Peter Matthiessen I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way. Betty White I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of. Rachel Stevens

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't

work. Josh Charles I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible. Jackee Harry I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me. Twyla Tharp Originality is really important. Jim Carrey I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience. Roger Daltrey Many people still regard many users of public services as undeserving. Elaine MacDonald The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices. Orrin Hatch He wants only to rest and to have a little peace. Luciano Pavarotti I feel things deeply. Christina Aguilera

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he

is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me. LaToya Jackson Almost everything I do is related to being fat. Camryn Manheim Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different. J Mascis I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western. Jensen Ackles I wish I could spend six years writing one novel. Paullina Simons Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple. Bill Shankly After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently. Esa-Pekka Salonen I've been through a lot as far as love. Leighton Meester Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever goin

I went to a catholic public school St Helens and learned English by watching bugs

bunny cartoons. Nick Mancuso I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants. Jane Pauley I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. Christopher Hitchens There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk? Heather Mills I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people. Paul Wellstone I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it. Giancarlo Esposito If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? Jessica Cutler The only model to follow is pure Islam. Abu Bakar Bashir You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.

I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself

for the beach. Lisa Snowdon Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site. Jaron Lanier But one of the amazing things about documentary is that you can remake it every time you make one. There is no rule about how a documentary film has to be made. Errol Morris The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. Quincy Jones But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time. Ira Glass You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't. Denis Leary For me it's all about keeping things simple and feeling comfortable in what I am wearing. I prefer investing in classic well-tailored pieces. Miranda Kerr I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting -

not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals. Paul Johnson I shall not grow conservative with age. Elizabeth Cady Stanton For me, I have no political ego in this thing with respect to any other leader and what they might feel is appropriate or necessary in what they're going to try to do... We need everybody on the front lines. Marc Morial The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being. Andrew Weil You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world. Michael Bloomberg I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. Brigitte Bardot The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another. Jasper Johns It was not ju

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent

people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless. Bianca Jagger But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident. Eva Mendes Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous. Robert Dale Owen I've always wanted to drive cross-country. Mila Kunis I know it shouldn't make a difference, but crossing the dateline, we weren't sure what day it was - it was very strange. Now, I seem to cope with it better. Phil Collins We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success. Matthew McConaughey Put it this way: singing is not my day job. Chris O'Dowd When trouble comes, focus on God's ability to care for you. Charles Stanley Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us. Jawaharlal Nehru

The pack is very important for a dog. Once you give him the right pack

and the right energy, you look at him. Cesar Millan I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.' Abigail Adams What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged. James Chanos Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? Ivan Turgenev There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there. Greg Ginn I like being talked about. I think some people really don't... because they're secure enough and they don't need that. Elaine Stritch Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into. Kate Hudson I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexib

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the

newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine. Glenn Beck I love to laugh. I love to make people laugh. Dreama Walker God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad. Linda Sue Park Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories. Courteney Cox I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian. Luke Ford In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. Malcolm X I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening. Debra Winger Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. Edward Everett Hale

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.Buzz OsborneOne 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 If I am not moving I get bored very easily. Adriana Lima While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Ivan Pavlov Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system. Alex Tabarrok It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby. Mandy Moore We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion. Tom Lantos I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity. Lord Mountbatten Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes. Bridget Kelly

Magic is who I am on the basketball court. Earvin is who I am.Magic JohnsonIf

you spend all day on horseback, and you hop off, you walk around like you still have a horse between your legs. And it affects your shoulders. They fall. Heath Ledger If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions. Marvin Harris I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there. Michael K. Williams I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process. Charlie Kaufman I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists. Charlie Sheen It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch. David Simon I've got nothing very original to say myself. A. N. Wilson You know, I'm not terribly fast at my

I strive to make movies I would enjoy.McGStudies show that children of divorced parents can

have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives. Larry Elder I want to do everything in the world that can be done. Fanny Kemble Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it. Ric Keller I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category. Jeff Bezos I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling. Jill Scott I knew some of the army quite well. Aung San Suu Kyi If I went on 'American Idol,' I would definitely be kicked out immediately. Grimes I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication? Gene Tierney

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk

and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes. John Shadegg Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief. Orson Scott Card I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing. Cat Osterman You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders. Mary Beth Whitehead When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good student and I had a lot of friends. Thomas McDonell There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren&

Well, for one thing, the executives in charge at Cartoon Network are cartoon fans. I

mean, these are people who grew up loving animation and loving cartoons, and the only difference between them and me is they don't know how to draw. Craig McCracken Oddly enough, I think that everybody can relate to revenge, on some level. Everyone has wanted to exact it, at some point, and everybody has tampered with the idea, even if they didn't actually go through with it. Emily VanCamp I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. Kate Chopin Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human. Aung San Suu Kyi My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. Hugh Leonard You don't need a love scene to show love. Lee Grant I'm becoming more powerful. Jenn Suhr I'd say I am partial to women. Bob Hoskins

'Top Gear' changed people's perceptions of me. I've had much more positive responses from my

TV appearances than written articles. And I have the weirdest voice. James Blunt The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder. H. Rap Brown I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there. Madonna Ciccone I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles. Jeff Foxworthy I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table. Thom Mayne My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field. Bo Jackson You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top. L.A. Reid Just watching my cats can make me happy. Paula Cole A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Albert Camus

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.Paul KeatingSo much

research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress. Sri Mulyani Indrawati Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts. Lawrence M. Krauss I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not. Lena Dunham A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience. Michael Mann I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. Werner Herzog You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator. Ralph Richardson People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped. Nadine Gordimer Movie stars are insecure like everyone else. That's why they go into acting!

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a

hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species. Juan Enriquez I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally. Matt Dillon My honor is my loyalty. Heinrich Himmler I think you get less takes on TV than in movies. Evan Peters Everything people say I couldn't do I've done. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Jerome K. Jerome I'm neither sexy nor a star. Wentworth Miller I think K-Pop is a type of expression. Swizz Beatz I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing. Tony Gilroy

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.Anthony HopkinsWe shouldn't

discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not. Joschka Fischer It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride. John Mahoney Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out. Lynda Barry Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story. Niall Ferguson Another man whose social life has ruined him. Dashiell Hammett I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies. Emily Saliers Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands. Novak Djokovic For me, I do not wish to build an empire. Eric Ripert

To see for themselves what the United States has been willing to undertake in the

name of freedom. We should all visit Normandy. We should pay homage to those brave Americans who stormed ashore at Omaha Beach and gave their lives for the freedom of others. Fatos Nano But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. George Saintsbury If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength. Steve Albini All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. Adolf Hitler There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him. Sylvester Stallone I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double. Jet L

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft

of it. Jack Nicholson The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing. Shinzo Abe I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone. Lois Lowry I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living. Francois Hollande America under 30 is a more non-whites place than America over 60. And we know that non-whites and whites vote differently. David Frum If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people. Justin Amash Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it? Fred Frith I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste. Linton Kwesi John

I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't

care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up. Jimmy Connors Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.' Jennifer Aniston I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that. Rick Perry I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now. Roger McGough When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now. Dan Hawkins Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly. Tony Vincent I believe in Father Frost. But not too deeply. But anyway, you know, I'm not one of those people who are able to tell the kids that Father Frost does not exist. Dmitry Medvedev I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important. Yao Ming But in another world, another life, probably growing up

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.Manuel

Puig I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound. Chelsea Clinton I like to be strong. Kathryn Bigelow It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores. Yvette Nicole Brown I just want to make music and make a living. I just have to find the means of doing that. Liz Phair I'm gonna be something one of these days. Patsy Cline I'm not a very good advice-giver. Juliana Hatfield There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts. Janet Reno We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit. Wesley Snipes

I was shy. I was more than shy.Marion CotillardYou guys ask really long questions. In

the U.S., they just want to know who you're sleeping with. Susan Sarandon It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker. Alice Weaver Flaherty Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful. Richard Gere I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Harris. And Greta Garbo. They were great actors. Robert De Niro It's not about revenues: The fundamental economics in digital business is scale and margins. The top line has become the bottom line. Yuri Milner My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity. Lenny Kravitz Morality is not only taught; it is caught. Neil Kurshan Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. Ryszard Kapuscinski

My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music

together later on in life just to play around at home until we decided to make a record. Eventually we started having more and more songs. Josephine de La Baume But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions. Alex Lifeson The best thing of all is God is with us. John Wesley We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing. Sheena Iyengar My dad's Russian. My mother's English. I would say my bottom half is Russian. Helen Mirren Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice. Namie Amuro Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leavi

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody

I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things. Eugene Chadbourne My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast. Todd English My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success. Herbert Read Horsemeat in many European and Asian countries is consumed as a delicacy. Elton Gallegly I always wanted to tell stories and act. Eli Wallach I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality. Geoffrey S. Fletcher I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being. Sammy Hagar If I'm going to appear in front of people I like to look my best. Bill Nighy In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone. Minka Kelly

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know

just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives. Jackson Katz No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work. Chloe Grace Moretz When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap. Peter Berg I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away. Rebecca Ferguson I try not to date musicians. It's all I've dated. Every guy I've dated is a musician. Obviously, it's not working. Kelly Clarkson I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny. Demetri Martin I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is. Amanda Plummer He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish. Ge

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.Alexis KornerAnd I

really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else - and it wasn't - before I told them. So I didn't tell them, until for a week, and then I told them. Lynn Redgrave Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. Henry Louis Gates To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare. Michael Owen I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure. Natalie MacMaster Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is. Kesha Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. Russ Carnahan Being in a floodplain is like s

When I do get pregnant, I highly doubt I'll be one of those women who

don't look pregnant from behind - I'll be that chick who looks pregnant from her ankles up! Katherine Heigl I'm a Christian but only me and the Lord know that for sure. Paul Broun What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government. Harold Washington If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first. Rod Stewart My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't. Mike Leigh I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs. Mitch Hedberg I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together. Jeri Ryan Every man hath a good and

I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by

the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt. Gary McCord But now there are more concussions due to not being used to the hard hitting. Jim Otto I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada. David Ginola Radio continues to be the very best advertising music performers have. No one who ever grabbed a Grammy got there without radio. Gordon Smith I'm very sunny. You know, I'm always optimistic. Paul Begala I like Daughtry, I like Nickelback, I like Dave Matthews. I like Beyonce - she's a really good entertainer. Grace Slick I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia. Alexander Lebedev You work hard for your income, and that hard work is what fuels the economy. Emily Oster My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona. Eric Cantona

Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the

growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.' Ron Conway The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond. Sheila E. The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on. Dorothy Day I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time. Eriq La Salle The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport. Johnny Miller I've always had people come up to me to say that they admire the way I play, and then they tell me they're not United fans. That's always been nice. Ryan Giggs But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests. Johannes Rau I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. Gary Lucas I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be

I'm a pro-horserace guy.Nate SilverRepetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do

a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt. Marton Csokas I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art. Jerry Saltz Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. Douglas Coupland My father's coaching Misha and I just might help from time to time. Richard Krajicek You know, I mean this sincerely, you know, I'm so grateful that I get to get up in the morning and do this, you know, and write books. Don Winslow All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel To be honest I never thought the acting thing would get off the ground. Jill Hennessy I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting. Ray Davies

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have

been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. Marian Anderson My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. Emanuel Celler I have a Bible study that my friends and I go to here in L.A. I go to church every Sunday. I've always been a believer. I love singing. I don't have the best voice - I just love getting my emotions out. Kellan Lutz I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing. Jenson Button To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything. Nick Cave No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky. Wilford Brimley I like women. I really like women. D

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. Voltaire I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. Jose Canseco You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away. Adam Pascal So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked. Jose Mourinho Maybe we need to re-engage our smart, energetic youth around the world to be farmers and find fresh, green technologies that will feed the world more fresh greens. Ellen Gustafson Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they? Hillary Clinton I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive. David Mixner Wars are expensive and dangerous. They're not political winners. Grover Norquist

I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and

bluntness will give you the answers. John O. Brennan There are things you stand up for because it's right. Nikki Giovanni The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws. Juan Williams Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service. Lawrence Eagleburger I never mind contorting myself for a good cause. Christina Aguilera Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops. John Katzman Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. Maureen Dowd Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything. David Cameron I like being on this stage because it keeps me thinking. Robert Goulet

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.Vikram

Seth Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. Joe Garagiola I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment. David Rockefeller I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers. Jennifer Garner There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track. Josh Radnor I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are. Michael Bloomberg I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology. Brendan Fraser Jeremiah has to lament that the

I think I felt that I was very well known for my figure and needed

to keep that up for my work. And I regret all of it. I felt fraudulent and very shameful. Jamie Lee Curtis But, then, Sampras won Wimbledon six times and that automatically puts him among the greatest. Richard Krajicek You've got to admire Sir Richard Branson. He is a completely different style of businessman to me, but you have got to admire what he has achieved. Alan Sugar I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting. Matthew Rhys I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. Luis Barragan I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest. Garry Shandling Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. J. Paul Getty Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso It sounds cliched, but superheroes can be lonely, vain, arrogant and proud. Often they overcome these human frailties

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.John TravoltaWe're making

far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle. Andrew Cohen The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car. Samantha Barks Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am. Mandy Moore A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months. Henny Youngman The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. Constance Baker Motley As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies. Jonathan Demme I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer. Bob Monkhouse I continue

I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are

what make it stronger, I think. Ryan Reynolds I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart. Jason Derulo I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children. Amanda Peet There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over. Sam Shepard Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me. Richard Pryor Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste. William Feather Governments are not always right. Jose Manuel Barroso Donuts. Is there anything they can't do? Matt Groening The conversation topic in my head is not what role I should play; it is whether I am going to play at all. Jonny Wilkinson

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy,

and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression. Mick Jagger We must act out passion before we can feel it. Jean-Paul Sartre Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are. Dinah Maria Mulock What you are comes to you. Ralph Waldo Emerson Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding. Lindsey Graham A real collector does not sell. Eli Broad The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere. Ron Suskind I have never been beautiful in cliche terms. Sally Field Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it. Richard Pryor

Well, my brother started acting before I did.Abigail BreslinDying is easy, it's living that scares

me to death. Annie Lennox Before the war there were many who were more or less ignorant of the international labor movement but who nevertheless turned to it for salvation when the threat of war arose. They hoped that the workers would never permit a war. Hjalmar Branting People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. Stephen King I'm not the perfect bride after all. Jenna Bush I certainly believe that God did create the world, yeah, absolutely I believe that. Lee Strobel One preacher turned me on, another turned me off. Barry White Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Henry David Thoreau I don't have any style. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

This hearing came about very quickly. I do have a few preliminary comments, but I

suspect you're more interested in asking questions, and I'll be happy to respond to those questions to the best of my ability. David Kay Our world has evolved and grown more technologically savvy. Lawmakers need to adjust to these changes. Dennis Hastert Silence is also conversation. Ramana Maharshi Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters. Mike Tyson I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living. Alain de Botton We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right. George H. W. Bush Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manners and being proper and having to go to cotillions. Anna Camp How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands? Mahalia Jackson I hate to mention age, but I come from an era

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't

last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now. Blair Underwood I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music. Phil Anselmo I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now. Chris O'Donnell No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere. Anna Held Liberty means more to me than life itself. Jack Kevorkian I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely. Derek Luke Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it. Bela Lugosi Wine is connected to abundance. Carole Bouquet I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it. Gene Simmons

If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed

to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything. Jenna Ushkowitz I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends. Lorna Luft Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it. Linus Torvalds With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create. Cyndi Lauper I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge. Emily Bett Rickards Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion. Danny Masterson If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride. Anish Kapoor I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network. Jack Dorsey Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around

in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side. James Spader I really like sort of disappearing. Katey Sagal Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole. Margaret J. Wheatley Gary Smith, when I came to America, taught me a great deal about racing. Emerson Fittipaldi Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me. Mario Cantone Boys are so much drama. Gabrielle Union Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time, but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans. Kesha I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom. Alan Rickman Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound. Ford Frick

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai

chi. It will make you live longer. Hal Sparks Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all. Shirley MacLaine Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. Alfred Adler I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children. Lars von Trier The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them. Matt Taibbi People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be. Philip Seymour Hoffman We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some. Jose Maria Aznar Of course, I d

I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was

quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on. Zayn Malik I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all. Clive Anderson Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters. Tim Heidecker I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to. Julianne Hough If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive! Carlisle Floyd Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment. Kenneth Scott Latourette I practice every day, I warm up before I play. Travis Barker No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero. Fisher Stevens The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be

run away with. We must keep the reins. George Eliot America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty. Chris Van Hollen Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. Peter Shaffer I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place. Zaha Hadid Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism. Tristan Tzara The older I get, the more I realize that religion is not going to be easily marginalized by one of its wannabe successors - science, capitalism, consumerism. Bruce Feiler The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. Isaac Asimov My favorite characters are the ones that

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that

they take to get the right photo. Loni Anderson My day, normally speaking, is: I go the gym in the morning, I go and work for 10 or 12 hours, I have dinner, I go to sleep. Chris Liddell Good friends don't have to visit each other every day. Juan Manuel Santos I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking. Sally Schneider It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal. Jimmy Buffett The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude. Johnny Thunders I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes. Danica Patrick Sleep is very precious to me. I love to sleep. Tia Mowry Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies. Hilary Swank

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person

with an idea could do. J. Michael Straczynski Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat? Allison Janney It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity. Yehuda Berg I think 'The Giver' is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn't believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids. Lois Lowry They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. Herman Melville The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill. Denis Thatcher We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb. Nicholas Breton It's very hard for me to say I'm sorry... but I do. Joe N

I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.Ethel MermanI'm doing exactly

what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it. David Johansen And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood. John Sergeant Wise If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like. Jules Shear I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects. Jordana Brewster I can't hold a camera anymore. Eve Arnold A carefree quality is a whole aspect of life that I will never understand. I don't think I have ever been carefree and can't see the pleasure of it. Carter Burwell But the shortest works are always the best. Jean de La Fontaine Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup. Sidney Crosby

I don't think about the gender of my readers or about reader expectations. I'm frankly

scared to. I figured out a long time ago that if I tried to guess the audience, it would be like me trying to guess which stocks to buy. Robert Crais I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play. Zoe Kazan You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously. Glenn Danzig I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful. Tippi Hedren CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out. Leslie Moonves Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers. Tim O'Brien If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him. Clin

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to

deal with what is most difficult. Rainer Maria Rilke Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together. Janine Benyus I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community. Robert M. Gates It's not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy. Tiffeny Milbrett I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball. Robert Carlyle By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room. Taylor Dayne My ultimate search has been for a muse. Dominic Monaghan I realized that my family was more important to me than downtown night life. Guy Lafleur I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong

character. Jane Seymour Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die. Brian Sibley We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. Manuel Puig If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself. Martin Luther I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to say something about home. Ernest Gaines I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want. Alexander Payne Cheerleaders deserve a lot of respect for what they do. Ashley Tisdale Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path. Andy Hertzfeld Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing

how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line. Malin Akerman Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. Karl Abraham You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests. Arne Jacobsen My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death. R. T. Rybak Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k). Paul Krugman I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them. Andre Benjamin I get more anxious than nervous before a concert. Miley Cyrus It looks like you're going to ha

Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud

and high - it's not as common as it once was. Adam Lambert I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people. Zoe Kazan The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision. James P. Hoffa Tim Tebow cannot dance, I know that. Tebow can do a lot of things, but he can not dance. Erin Andrews Cable would not translate into the public radio universe. Juan Williams I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was. Daniel Day-Lewis I think, Larry, one of the things is I'm a very active person. Joan Collins Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. Tom McClintock I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely. Peter Dinklage

Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time.Jeff DanielsAfrican-American women account

for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases. Elijah Cummings We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it. Harry Reid Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless. Magnus Carlsen Eating people is wrong. Michael Flanders I believe in numbers and signs. Vikram Chatwal I enjoy jokes, smiling, and making people smile. I may be a little different, but that's OK, who wants to be normal anyway? Tim Duncan Unquestionably, the mission in Iraq has become more dangerous and difficult. Ron Kind There's always somebody older, richer, more desperate than you. Kirstie Alley

The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at

or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. Talcott Parsons In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda. Michael Pollan I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history. Retief Goosen I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger. Alan Alda I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. Christian Bale For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communi

We have to make sure that when we make choices as a society, people understand

the choices, agree with them, and are behind them. Otherwise, the system is going to fall apart. Juan Enriquez I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway. Harold Ford, Jr. I do throw out a lot of ideas, and I forget completely about them. Charlie Kaufman Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy. Joe Louis I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet. Kate Moss Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. Carlos Drummond de Andrade No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen. Renee Fleming I wouldn't say I'm drawn to dark roles, and it's not like I pick and choose. Matthew Goode I think I write about things that are mysterious to me. Ann Beattie

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on

America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking. Scott Ritter The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences. Charles Stanley But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking. Vincente Minnelli I love to imagine inside the head of a woman. Jay McInerney I get paid for what most kids get punished for. Jerry Lewis There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. Junius What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. Ralph Bakshi A true champion can adapt to anything. Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Shoot, man, I love everybody! I don't have time to hate. Blake Shelton

My heroes were all in the theatre.Damian LewisI profess accurately to describe native Africa -

Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. John Hanning Speke The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. Walter Lippmann I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually. Shania Twain It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time. Jeff Bridges I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know? Jill Scott A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books. Ned Vizzini You can heal your body with food. Stacy Keibler I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I

If you can't think like an onion or a carrot or a tomato, you may

be a technician, but you won't understand what you're doing, and your dish will be flat. Eric Ripert My memories of events and games are fragmented. Zinedine Zidane When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well. Christian de Portzamparc You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time. Jake Shimabukuro We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars. Bill Bruford When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line. David Del Tredici I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues. Sam Brownback I watched television a little, but I mostly ju

I hate being thought of as a product.Miley CyrusI understand Spanish better than I speak

it. Julian Castro Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search. David Filo The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations. John Wycliffe There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players. Kofi Annan A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. Niklaus Wirth I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain. John Mayer If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount. Barbara Corcoran In reality, for me every role is completely different. Hugh

My girls and I regularly go through their rooms to find clothes and toys to

donate to charities. I firmly believe that children who have been given so much need to experience the joy that comes from giving. Kimora Lee Simmons I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track. Cate Blanchett I don't normally watch myself on the telly. Frank Bruno I think if a woman is feeling aggressive, she should be aggressive and not hold back. Jhene Aiko Truman Capote is really an interesting cat. Steve Earle The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Ayn Rand People try constantly to use me, and I hate it. Tracey Emin I love to travel. I'm a curious person. Hilary Swank My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.' Dave Chappelle

L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also

know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer. Matt Walsh How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century! Mary Augusta Ward You're presuming too much by using the word legacy - presuming that someone is going to care. Michael Bolton I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans. Portia de Rossi In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever. Trey Parker We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives. Simon S

Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to

create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality. Christian Lous Lange The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing. Jack Dorsey You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die. Barbara Bush Action scenes are not that different from other scenes. Clive Owen I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame. Jeanette Winterson People hang their hopes on you fitting into their CD collection in way that they have made a space for, but I'm playing a longer game than that. Liz Phair I couldn't say my own name when I was 12. Ken Venturi The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. Sargent Shriver I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste. Ro

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that

they honor working people. Adriana Trigiani So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa. Bill Parcells Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia. Ahmed Ben Bella I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work. Martin Fleischmann When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd. Logan Marshall-Green Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo I'll miss the comments from the people on the street who love the show and who have felt its impact on the culture. I won't miss the shooting schedule, though! Dennis Franz I believe in people, especially suffering people.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise

with any such men. Benjamin F. Wade As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other. Alan Moore I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise. Christopher Hitchens If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor. Fuzzy Zoeller The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth. Cheyenne Jackson When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. Ayn Rand The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. George Eliot But the path you end up on means that you have to close

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.Tori AmosWhat

is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people. Kenny G I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around. Josh Turner I don't call myself Latin, I call myself Puerto Rican. Rosie Perez Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable. Bryan Cranston No, I don't have an agent. I'm hoping to get one soon. Jason Mewes You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community. John O. Brennan I find standing and posing for photos very awkward. Nicole Kidman It calmed me down to see that most of the time no-one gets the scene on the first take. Evanna Lynch

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to

try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change. Mindy Kaling I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world. Bertrand Russell The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them. Jack Hannah Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air. Billy Mays I find it very hard to play a part, then take it off like a cheap suit and become Mr Normal - Mr. Nice Guy. Jimmy Nail I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function. Britt Ekland A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. Dean Inge Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. Blaise Pascal I re

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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a

film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well. Danny Boyle I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. Arielle Dombasle I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast. Tommy Hilfiger As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all. Gene Tierney I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper. Sam Wyly You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way. Terry McMillan No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever. Thomas Malthus Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions. Vaclav Havel The best thing about be

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

I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into

politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it. John McEnroe That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller. Lew Wasserman I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well. Hale Irwin Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. Ezra Taft Benson As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want. Dennis Rodman It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coach

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

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a

constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. Will Rogers Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. John W. Gardner Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. Louis Farrakhan The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work. Robert Taft Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. Frederick Jackson Turner While a lab Director can ge

Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more

powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy. Nathan Myhrvold If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album. Lil Wayne If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. Tony Gilroy There are lots of moments that are great for an actress. Ruth Wilson I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well. Lindsey Graham Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty. Robert Mondavi You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. Gordon Lightfoot Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed togeth

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not

mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.' Colin Powell 'I don't want to grow up', Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living. Jason Newsted To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Confucius There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China. Iris Chang It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. Norman Vincent Peale You will find my last words in the blue folder. M

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I

really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make. Christian Slater It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else. Lance Burton We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen. Barack Obama Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music. Nobuo Uematsu It is only those who believe in their ability who shine when it matters. Maurice Greene I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk. Josh Homme It's insane to try to balance the budget. William Vickrey I didn't want to do something that was easy for me. Christina Aguilera I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway. George Stephenson The president may be a nice guy, but he&#

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When

it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours. James Mooney I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline. Lydia Lunch It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want. Margaret Haddix The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants. Theodore Roosevelt Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential. Smokey Robinson We always have a good time playing, and I'm glad it shows. Kathy Valentine The question is no

If anyone ever asked me what I had to complain about it would not have

taken long to tell them. Maybe I was just easily pleased. Len G. Murray We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech. Albert Finney My job description is... being enthusiastic. Dhani Harrison Black culture has been a huge influence in my life. Eddie Huang It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan. Jencarlos Canela Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make. Tim Berners-Lee Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment. John Bercow I pack every minute I can with something to do. Bryan Adams I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. Jeanette Winterson I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. John Lithgow