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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch

is more satisfying. Ingmar Bergman Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career. Eric Liu Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they're born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you. Ray Romano I think I have a lot of crazy layers. Blythe Danner If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything. Patsy Cline When you think positive, good things happen. Matt Kemp I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer. Patricia Cornwell Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. Marilyn vos Savant We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice? Charles Olson

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're

bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have. Marco Rubio I really love Paris. It's my favorite city. Wolfgang Puck Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself. Eugene Ormandy The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking? Angelina Jolie The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well. Rick Danko I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. Portia Simpson-Miller A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. George Herbert When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter. Jonathan Pryce The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it. Paul Ryan

The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe.Lawrence KutnerYou know, I grew

up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl. Kyra Sedgwick As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it. Susan Faludi It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a fashion - you discover it and it gives you a whole new lease on life. Steve Vai I am really close to the Chinese government. And I have a chance to talk to them, listen to them. Thaksin Shinawatra We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it. Dick Butkus I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States. Jim Courier Yes, anally retentive men are my forte! Geoffrey Rush If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare th...

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.Isaac MizrahiOnce you declare your

loyalty to a team, every person who doesn't support that team, it's their job to ruin you, to tell you you're an idiot and to tell you that you made the wrong choice. Mark Hoppus Family time is really important to me. Chad Smith I don't think that Iran with a nuclear capability will be just the problem of the state of Israel. This is a matter that concerns the whole world. Moshe Katsav Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot. George Lazenby So many of the bands that influenced me growing up were English, even if I didn't realise it. English pop ruled the world in the '80s! CeeLo Green My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. Mike Myers I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers. Heather Mills I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies. Bill Nighy

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or

9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything. Rudolf Nureyev I'm pretty transparent and have no problem sharing my weaknesses. Paul Henderson If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians. Neil deGrasse Tyson My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up. Felicity Jones There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. Georg C. Lichtenberg Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. Atul Gawande I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwr...

You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you.

I don't want people to get sick of me. Tahj Mowry Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit. Ice Cube We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens. Henry Selick If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road. Lou Gramm Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Edmund Burke We're very lucky to be able to go back and reclaim something that was a very special part of all our lives. Roger Andrew Taylor I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff. Mark Ruffalo I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made thro...

I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are

written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white. Jesse Williams A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt. Vince Flynn They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now. Dorothy Hamill Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. Ani DiFranco Education liberates a woman. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate. Peter Singer Patience is passion tamed. Lyman Abbott As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. Elliott Carter

I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I

only liked comedies and dramas. Sam Raimi People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy. Ma Ying-jeou As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn. Sue Wicks I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one. Noah Emmerich I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. Sitting Bull If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem. Julius Erving In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private. Monica Bellucci I know who I am as a...

If General Motors can't survive and run their business like a business, let them go

under. James Woods I got accepted at Yale but never went. Shia LaBeouf I was just another long-haired teenage kid with visions of grandeur, strumming a tennis racket or a broom in front of his bedroom mirror. Jon Bon Jovi If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen. Hugh Grant I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America. Ben Stein You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do. And who knows? Maybe somebody will stumble. Ron Paul I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel. Dave Gahan The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am. S...

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which

are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. Salvatore Quasimodo We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts. Gary Player My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. Michael Stipe I don't think anyone is qualified to answer questions of eternal fate definitively, much less pinpoint it to a given day. Jon Meacham Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world. Kate Mara Summer is very precious. Dylan Lauren I hated school, but I love work. Simon Cowell The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game. Martina Hingis The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers. Tony Hale

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to

get. John Kricfalusi Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic. Spencer Wells Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country. Daisaku Ikeda It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it. Danica McKellar Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are. Rob Sheffield Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun. Nicole Sullivan Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them. Anthony Quinn I'm a very good screamer, that's for sure. Margot Kidder If I was gay, why wou...

We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County,

but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood! Atticus Shaffer That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it. Bruce Hornsby Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people, and goof off for four hours. Jason Marsden Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people. Taryn Manning You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world! Danai Gurira Comedy is actually very macho driven. Scott Thompson Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part o...

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are

limits and even points of no return. Sylvia Earle In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron. Christian Bale Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better. Laurel Clark Sports life is very short. Sergei Bubka One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control. Antony Beevor The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. Arthur Erickson Brave men are brave from the very first. Pierre Corneille Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it. Christopher Heyerdahl It took me...

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy?

Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? Aldous Huxley I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing. Anthony Bourdain If there was any show I could guest star on, I would want to guest star on 'Star Wars: The Clone Wars' because I am such a nerd and I love that show. If there was ever an opportunity to be on that, I would snatch it up. Atticus Shaffer Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Traveling around the world during the World Cup in 2006, I was thinking, 'Wow, this is such an incredible and global event.' Jehane Noujaim Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece. Ernie Pyle He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back. Thomas Fuller Somehow, as a wri...

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming,

and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress. Jay Inslee Democracy is when the people keep a government in check. Aung San Suu Kyi My father was a Catholic, but my mother wasn't. She had to do that weird deal you do as a Catholic - they deign to sanction your marriage and you have to bring your children up as Catholics. Jared Harris As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science. Louise Slaughter My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down. Jerry Rice I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. Paul Cezanne When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from 'My Girl.' Luke Treadaway Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine. Matthew McGrory I'm not...

I've always needed to bulk up, so until the modeling took off I was ramming

Big Macs down my throat and doing plenty of bodyweight work. I'm over the Big Macs now, but I'll still drop down and do my press ups whenever I find the time. Jamie Dornan I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time. M. Ward Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. Thomas a Kempis Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days. James Brown Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress. Wendell Phillips I'll only stop singing when I'm in my grave. Compay Segundo The service meant so much to me. You don't know privileged I feel and how lucky I am to have served. Tony Curtis Film has to describe and show. Ralph Bakshi One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. ...

I'm still enjoying discovering more designers and getting to play dress-up in a bigger way

than I ever have before. Carly Rae Jepsen Everything begins with an idea. Earl Nightingale And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny. Roseanne Barr If a film doesn't play, people aren't going to be that nice. John Turturro That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati. Gamaliel Bailey When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. Howard Nemerov When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it. Jennifer Jason Leigh We live at the edge of the miraculous. Henry Miller Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. Laura Schlessinger

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.Adam LambertAn artist should remain true. Otherwise his

talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy. Norman Reilly Raine I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up. Benedict Cumberbatch The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated. Peter DeFazio I am seeking every day to restore faith in Parliament - to ensure we have a House of Commons which is representative, effective and reconnected to the people we serve. John Bercow I don't think I really do go shopping. Somehow clothes just kind of end up in my closet. I do not like shopping; I'm not into it. Shannon Elizabeth My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside. David Hasselhoff The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. Napoleon Bonaparte Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense. Kenneth R. Miller

A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.Scott ThompsonI'm

a writer, and the subject is less important than the act of writing itself. Jess Walter I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it. Ozwald Boateng The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats. Will Rogers Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. D. H. Lawrence I'm a big fan of Die Antwoord, which is a different style than I normally listen to. Taylor Momsen You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality. Zadie Smith Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are. Glenn Beck My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh. Jim Davis

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the

very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. George Eliot It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego. Taylor Hackford Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour. Patrick Duffy Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. Aldous Huxley I don't release records to be anything but enjoyable. John Lydon People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification. Dalia Mogahed I never make conscious decisions. Anthony Hopkins But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot. Bill Bruford Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who r...

Ever since I bought and started flying an airplane, it's been almost exclusively for business.

I love to fly. It's a great joy to me. But rarely do I use it for any kind of pleasure, other than it is a pleasure to fly. Arnold Palmer There are no ordinary moments. Dan Millman In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system. Ralph Fiennes I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do. Pixie Lott I have a real issue with radio these days. I just am not into the current music. Carnie Wilson Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate. Geena Davis I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it. Skylar Astin I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley. Chris Hughes In any group there is more or less tension b...

Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I

felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously. Calista Flockhart Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it. Levon Helm I happen to like vampires more than zombies. Martin Scorsese I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy. Gary Carter I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it. Marc Anthony No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace. Adam Hochschild One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show. Laurie Anderson Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy. Dan Castellaneta The que...

We were always a party band and we used to play outside a lot.Trey AnastasioSo

often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.' Shailene Woodley My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures. Jennifer Garner No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that. Iain Duncan Smith History is often best told from the ground, out of a car window or in someone's kitchen, not through some huge production mechanism or grand framing device. Josh Fox No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. Hu Shih You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying. Kevin Johnson I endeavor to ma...

Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth

trying to solve them together. Simon Mainwaring When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it. Joe Manganiello I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds. Iain Banks You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies. Tony Kushner I'm a mom first, a singer second. Gretchen Wilson You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing. Katey Sagal If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery. Simon Hoggart Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making. Frans de Waal I don't believ...

I'll watch movies I like to see, Steve Jobs interviews, something that's going to make

me smart and then go to sleep. Jaden Smith The Church's role should be separated from the state's role. Roy Moore I'm going to capitalize on everything I can. Ryan Sheckler There's no pride in having been a child soldier. Emmanuel Jal When the government gets involved in pricing, I don't think it's the right way to look at a business. Jamie Dimon You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there. Al-Waleed bin Talal I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool. Bruno Tonioli Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous. Dan Fogler If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short. Franz Grillparzer

There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of

people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world. Karolina Kurkova Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over. Tara Lipinski I've always loved film more than theater. Laura Dern Race differences show up early in life. J. Philippe Rushton If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record. Stella McCartney A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town. Henry David Thoreau Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription. William Lyon Mackenzie King Tradition is a very powerful force. John P. Kotter Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40. Carol Leifer

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and

cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that. Noel Gallagher Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities. Arthur Keith Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington. Mike Lowry I'm a big David Lynch fan. Jonathan Davis The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. E. B. White It was Jack's and Tom Watson's day yesterday. But today, it's another day. Fuzzy Zoeller It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains? Linda Fiorentino Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid. Doris Day At the end of th...

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.A. B. YehoshuaWell,

of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped. Anita Hill In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible. Ben Folds A lot of cats are not that social. Jack Hanna I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism. Graham Coxon We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. Marcel Proust When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me. Taraji P. Henson It'...

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the

castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't. Alice Hoffman The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out. Hugh Jackman Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness. John Lydon In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster. Randall Jarrell I like titles that are a little difficult, because it's kind of counterintuitive. Charlie Kaufman Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. Carl Sandburg Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on pa...

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he

knew and suspected. Bob Woodward The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. Edward Burnett Tylor Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need. Jesse Owens My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty. Giada De Laurentiis This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten. Ashley Benson When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day. Jeanette Winterson I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself. Ursula Andress You have to step up when your number is called. Reggie Lewis I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in g...

My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.Deron WilliamsIf

you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops. Rutger Hauer One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.' Julie Burchill For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football. Eliza Dushku Natural history is not about producing fables. David Attenborough It's my body. And I like my body. And I like my breasts. And no, they're not fake. Lindsay Lohan We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. Raymond Queneau The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone. Paul Rand When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her. Mason Cooley

I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock,

when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks! Tippi Hedren From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history. George Nethercutt It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces. Edward Witten I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers. Zadie Smith We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique. Adrian Smith The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love. Kim Cattrall I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going ...

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event

is not the most important thing. Bruce Dern A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. Emily Greene Balch Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests. Earl Blumenauer The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world. Simon Mainwaring This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Margaret Atwood There were many, many other 'Django' films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one 'Django.' Franco Nero I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy. Anna Torv ...

Striking out batters was easy.George HermanPutting a little time aside for clean fun and good

humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time. Hattie McDaniel If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to understand this nature that seems to be a bottomless basket, because there is no peace in it. Guy Finley In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute. Thurgood Marshall I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on. Rebecca Lobo The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items. Robert C. Solomon If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war. Bao Dai I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest. Tom Cochrane Most teachers are not trained in ...

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force -

that thoughts rule the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor. Mary Astell A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens. Rene Redzepi Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me. Philip Seymour Hoffman Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. Ninette de Valois I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it. Earl King I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to. Lucy Hale I'm very hairy, and men in film and TV are no longer allowed to be hairy. Nick Offerman My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses. Cate Bla...

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation

of certain words is so deliberate. Miguel For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time. Cliff Martinez 'Grey's Anatomy' has given me a lot of security, especially as my kids have grown older. Plus, for the last eight years, I didn't have to get on a plane and go to do a job out of town or in another part of the world. Justin Chambers When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy. Barry White I don't play video games. Jason Newsted We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand. Mercedes Ruehl Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa. Bobby Fischer Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self. Priscilla Presley Little change...

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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President

Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things. Ted Olson In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. Steve Buscemi Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those. Spencer Abraham When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes! Ken Hensley I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later. Susan George Someti...

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're

serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally. John Blair I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new. Robin Gibb When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything. Cindy Sheehan We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people. Thad Cochran I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission. Tom Hayden Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease. John Witherspoon ...

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group

of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be. William Golding I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play. Aja Naomi King I am a very strong supporter of our government's view that it is important to engage with all countries around the world - very much including Russia. Chrystia Freeland I was wrapping up my stint on 'Daredevil' co-writing with Andy Diggle during the Shadowland story, when Marvel asked if I was interested in doing something else with DD but a bit different. When they explained the purpose of the 'Season One' books, I was intrigued - I'm a big advocate of books for people new to the medium - and said yes. Antony Johnston Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw ...

I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me

fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have. Lou Henry Hoover I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world. Anthony Braxton You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. James A. Baldwin It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. Cynthia McKinney I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater. John Hughes Just what you want to be, y...

A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like

I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great. David Alan Grier In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved. Marc Benioff I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense. Apolo Ohno That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes. Martina Hingis But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living. David Korten I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an importa...

The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave

that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another. Katie Kitamura In politics, you've got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica. Tim Kaine I get a stack of scripts, like, once a month, and most of the time, you find these placeholder girls that are there to provide a bounce for the male character. So we know he's funny because she's serious and she's mad at him. We know he's strong because she needs saving. So really, her job is to validate this personality trait of our hero or male. Amber Heard Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious. Simon Rattle If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of...

It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and

women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still. Judy Davis We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners. Mike Johanns Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God. John Hines You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women. Marcia Wallace Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. Paul D. Boyer The dread of criticism is the death of genius. William Gilmore Simms A mask...

Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with

silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad. Aravind Adiga Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country. Marilyn vos Savant I might survive a few days at sea. Probably not as long as Pi. Suraj Sharma I want to show little girls that the possibilities are endless. That's my goal - to not only do it for myself, but to show them I can do whatever I put my mind to. Nicki Minaj If I had my way, I'd wear jewelry, a great pair of heels and nothing else. Jada Pinkett Smith Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare. Geoff Mulgan I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids. Peter Maxwell Davies To be great we need to win games we aren't s...

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who

have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. Freeman Dyson I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh. Norman Wisdom I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens. John Linder I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. Christopher Hitchens I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy. Joss Whedon People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint. Joel Coen I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music. Chuck Mangione Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take ...

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to

own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along. Marc Maron I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit. Dakota Fanning All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault. Paul von Hindenburg Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! Tony Robbins My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. Winfield Scott Hancock He who knows ho...