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The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce

sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often. Murray Gell-Mann I love art. I used to have a painting of Gorbachev that was given to my family by Gorbachev. Armie Hammer Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.' Lara Stone I think we need to treat everybody with dignity. Rand Paul I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things. Sienna Miller Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. Ben Stein Who would not give up wit for power and beauty? Mason Cooley The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia. Schuyler Fisk I have always been one to encourage perseverance. Christina Aguilera I can take more punishment than anyone in the business. Ric Flair

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it

again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure. Henry Kravis Removal of an organ is difficult and dangerous. There have been several deaths of healthy donors. I think myself, I would be hesitant to participate as a liver donor. It's a very tricky operation. Joe Murray In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race. Juan Williams You can do great things with low-tech stuff. Laurie Anderson I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. C. L. R. James I love the French horn. Vanessa Williams On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. Jean Racine That's because the International Olympic Committee has a policy of never replacing medals. Mary Lou Retton We need proof in our society.

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you

like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise. Ron Wyden You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game. Rickie Lee Jones It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do. Derek Jacobi I think well-read people - the world is open to them. Avi Arad My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920. George J. Mitchell I didn't grow up as child actor. David Boreanaz Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time. Ken Hill The truth is always less interesting than the fiction. Jean-Pierre Dardenne Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity. Asia Argento I take two hours off for my family

You don't service a big, fun premise comedy and then shoot yourself in the foot

with too much irony. You need the audience to invest in the fun and the warmth and generally care about the characters. Shawn Levy My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around. Anne Lamott I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art. Naomie Harris A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap. Mitch Hedberg Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself. Tadashi Shoji Evan Rachel Wood is the best actress I've ever worked with, hands down. Mickey Rourke I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder. Bonnie Raitt Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. Geoff Mulgan If you

Nearly 100,000 sex offenders remain unregistered, and are moving freely about the country; the risk

that they may strike again grows every day. Bob Ney We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches. Franz Boas I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser. David Baldacci I'd like to go to the Moon. Jeanne Calment An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. Jacques Barzun But, you know, you can't be a star at home. Jim Carrey People always want me to talk about Wonder Woman, so I do. Lynda Carter Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. Jock Sturges God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. Naguib Mahfouz When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. Calvin Trillin

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we

would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity. Amy Sherman-Palladino The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. Jonathan Lethem Mr. Speaker, I agree with those who say that the Global War on Terrorism is actually a Global War of Ideas and that terrorism is one of the tactics used in that War. Mac Thornberry A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. Samuel Johnson Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends. Mitchell Zuckoff Everything works out how it should. Gwen Stefani I can be a lady - surprise! Carnie Wilson My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. Lenny Kravitz I really think I ambled

I never wanted to really make a career out of doing Christian music exclusively, but

I love it to my core. I love music. I love what I'm doing now. Debby Boone They'll take everything, even your tears. George Foreman People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer. Eric Davis I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa. Richard Leakey I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers. Bruno Tonioli When the body doesn't want to go on, the mind continues to fight. J. R. Martinez I succumbed to hedonism. Simon Le Bon Actually I have been singing since I was a kid. Gregory Harrison I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York. Andrew Rannells But even before I was in the military, I was extremely jumpy when asleep. Chr

I must say that when I left 'Doctor Who,' I was filled with... not loathing,

but I was incredibly annoyed because I wanted to do more television and films and the only thing that people could ever see me in was a recreation of what I had done. Carole Ann Ford I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard. Eric Davis Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch. W. C. Fields Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. Mignon McLaughlin As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times. Gero Miesenbock Did you really think I would sell you out? Karl Malone If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation. John Bercow I am no longer afraid to say anything. Anna Freud I used to dance, but now I

You know, one of the perceptions, again, about FEMA is that there's been a demise

in the organization since it became the - under - it started to become part of the Department of Homeland Security. Henry Bonilla It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with. Matthew Ashford I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me. Marjane Satrapi It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment. Jennie Finch Everyone has a past. Darrell Issa I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. Ezra Pound I think the tougher the challenge the better. Jim Otto I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food. Julian Clary Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. Barbara Johnson The family is the school of duties

You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome

stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh. Leslie Jamison The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. Ben Stein I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. Mahatma Gandhi We're bigger now than we were in the late 70s when we were peaking. Ace Frehley Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places. Zaha Hadid Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age. Alexander McCall Smith How good is God! How sweet his yoke! Jean Racine No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good

Today three-quarters of the Palestinian people are displaced: there are 5 million Palestinian refugees throughout

the world. Ismail Haniyeh Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. Immanuel Kant I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. Benjamin Spock America slept because most Americans preferred it that way. Ferdinand Mount There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. Carlos Fuentes I've always wanted to win in my hometown. Paula Creamer There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play. Jaromir Jagr Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings. Josh Silver She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater. Hedda Hopper I've done a lot of things away from my homeland. Compay Segundo

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and

providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs. Geoff Mulgan Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year. Renny Harlin I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me. Blake Mycoskie I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much. Billy Corgan I don't fear anything now. G. Gordon Liddy Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth. Jean-Paul Sartre Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter. H. G. Bissinger I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. Luigi

What I've learned in these 11 years is you just got to stay focused and

believe in yourself and trust your own ability and judgment. Mark Cuban I have friends in Utah who care about me as a person, not for what I am. They'll call to see how my heart is, how my blood pressure is. That's important to me. Rick Majerus I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier. Terry Bradshaw It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets. David Copperfield I never played coffee shops; I just played a lot of coffee shop-sized venues. I took every venue I could get my hands on. Sara Bareilles For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail. Emma Roberts I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage. Countee Cullen I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate. Rita Mae Brown I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes. Eric Cantona You know it's hard to he

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all

part of truth and part of error must be seen. Michael Servetus 'Doctor Who' is one of those things that stays with you throughout your career, and I'm very happy with that. Sophie Aldred I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that. Sophia Bush I love it when celebrities fall apart. Moby It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening. Michael Phelps When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin. Jon Fishman To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life. Joss Stone I love American muscle cars. It's my thing. Brody Jenner I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed. Lady Gaga I don't really need a lot of help from a director. Christina Ricci

You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a

strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me. Harry Connick, Jr. I have always preferred the reflect of the life to life itself. Francois Truffaut The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands. David Duval A basic tenet of a healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency. Peter Fenn To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. John Forbes Nash, Jr. I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter. Georgina Chapman When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story. Jean Paul Gaultier Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like. Brian Chesky Do you know what it's like to love and be alone? Abraham Polonsky Better be killed than frightened to death. Robe

I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency

savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance. Suze Orman Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers. Susan Lucci If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate. Rene Redzepi I played cello in my high school orchestra. Eberhard Weber For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can. Eric Whitacre Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress. Tim Robbins We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts. Sonia Sotomayor Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people. Stephen Hopkins I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced. Elizabeth Edwards Me be

Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I

think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable. April Gornik I work out with a trainer five days a week. Jordana Brewster I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. John Green The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone. Karl Rove Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself. Anita Hill My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day. Gordon Smith Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after. Jimmy Smith And I remember looking at Gray Davi

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing,

but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it. Larry Wall Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything. Ashley Scott The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great. Abbie Hoffman It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. Jose Bergamin Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean? Jason Schwartzman We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live. Eydie Gorme People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make. Juliana Hatfield All disgust is originally disgust at touching. Walter Benjamin I didn't wa

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look

at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important. Issey Miyake Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life. Georges Cuvier Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans. Ron Lewis Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. Aleister Crowley Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. Miguel de Cervantes Live music is better. Neil Young I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart. Amber Valletta My major influence was my ten years older sister. Willa Ford I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both. Demian Bichir I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotion

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me

as before I started playing in the NBA, either. Jeremy Lin The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage. Linda McMahon I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media. Brenda Lee I'm more of a culture hummingbird. Jai Rodriguez I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you. Jane Wagner I like how strong Sade is and how she doesn't give away too much. Jessie Ware I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things. Joe Namath I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books. Terry Brooks He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within. Quintus Ennius

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really

famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. Penn Jillette I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me. Jennifer Tilly I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care. Adam Hasner I'm still true to my Southern roots. Randy Jackson I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets. Chris Pratt I can hypnotize rabbits. Elena Anaya I can't bear Catholicism. George Michael I'm happy people look at me as a role model. Lara Stone The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear. George Weinberg After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end. Lou Gramm

I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I

will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses. Eddie Huang Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke. Linda Cardellini But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information. Boutros Boutros-Ghali A concept is stronger than a fact. Charlotte Perkins Gilman There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind. Bill Nye I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland. Kenny Cunningham I am a focused person. I am a fighter. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. Lionel Blue I grew up in a funny way. Gordon Ramsay Music can tear me up inside. Florence

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily

press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it. Zac Efron I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America. David Morrissey One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. Edward Coke Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm. Bernard Williams Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. Peggy Noonan People leave when life becomes untenable where they are. Isabel Wilkerson Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. Bill Moyers I've always thought live albums were cop-outs. David Coverdale Online communities are an expression of loneliness. Joanne Harris

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good

blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme. James Fenton I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children. Kim Cattrall The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness. Mike Krzyzewski If you're not having fun it's not worth doing. Tommy Bolin There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half. Shaun White I believe most things can be said in a few lines. Enzo Ferrari I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup. Robin Tunney A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment. Vesta Williams Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another. Dhani Jones Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready. James Taylor

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that

the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels. Kathleen Kenyon My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team. Bode Miller Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. A. R. Ammons The truly creative people tend to be outliers. Nolan Bushnell I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley. Samantha Barks Business can talk itself into a blue funk. Helen Clark There is no suspense in inevitability. Damon Lindelof I have a very strong belief in God. M. Ward To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life. Edwin Markham A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. Jose Bergamin

Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did

so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could. Oscar Robertson Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. Friedrich Durrenmatt And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live. Criss Angel I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. Felix Baumgartner I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately. Sabrina Lloyd I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. Billy Zane I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky. Mads Mikkelsen There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book. Asne Seierstad The deterio

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films

were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful. Max von Sydow It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go. Gwen Moore Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. Richard H. Davis I can procrastinate a little bit. will.i.am Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears. Angelina Maccarone The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man. Robinson Jeffers The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound. Dennis Rodman I think what people might not really know about me is that I'm really a shy individual. Jerry Rice Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing. Bruce Wil

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that,

where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Junius On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know? Burt Ward It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love. Cedric the Entertainer Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway. LeBron James You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.' Madeleine Albright You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. Harold S. Geneen Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. Alphonse de Lamartine Honestly, I grew up with Disney. David Giuntoli For a woman, forty is torture, the end. Grace Kelly

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science

fiction I was reading in my very early teens. Iain Banks I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either. Sutton Foster I have my best ideas when I am alone. Leona Lewis I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me. Junior Seau One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. Eddie Izzard You can only mentor somebody if they want to be. Phil Ramone I make film to make time pass. Jean-Luc Godard I'm letting no man handle my bank account. Hattie McDaniel T Rex could not run. Jack Horner

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them

get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors. Julia Stiles I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy. Niki Taylor Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? Frederick Carl Frieseke Same-sex marriage is not the future. Maggie Gallagher By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream. Robert Casey I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids. Aidan Gillen I'm totally human. Serena Williams He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. Robert Louis Stevenson I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting. Georg Baselitz Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. George Savile

We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very

large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.' Michael Cudlitz If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion. Jay Alan Sekulow One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice. Gary Vaynerchuk Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh. Geoffrey Beene Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker. Marek Belka A melody is not merely something you can hum. Aaron Copland We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children. Jonathan Safran Foer I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke? Melanie Griffith I didn't just invent saying offensive things. Eminem Dear is you

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest

film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film. Nick Nolte You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it. Jerry Reed Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. E. M. Forster And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time. Jesus Christ Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions. David O. Selznick The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning. Bradley A. Smith You can't be the candidate and the campaign manager. Roger Stone Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys. Laura Prepon I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when

When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and

they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife. Jordan Knight I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't. L.A. Reid We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.' Nancy Pearcey All our words and acts are passing in review before God. Ellen G. White Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life. Sylvia Earle We in middle age require adventure. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun The universe is an intelligence test. Timothy Leary Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path. Michael Ritchie Transcendence constitutes selfhood. Martin Heidegger I just love to mak

There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between

brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next? Simon Mainwaring When you're an actress you've got to keep your body as your sanctuary and your muscles. Paz de la Huerta If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others. Morarji Desai Literature is analysis after the event. Doris Lessing But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it. Santigold I guess I'm a bit of a romantic. Felicity Jones I must have done about 25,000 promos. Casey Kasem Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. John Boehner I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just hap

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a

koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. Steve Irwin I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane. Ozwald Boateng For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world. Donnie Wahlberg Everything is generated through your own will power. Ray Bradbury To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give. Franka Potente I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end. Diane Sawyer If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. Scott Adams I have a reputation for being a straight-talker. Margaret Chan I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say. Michele Bachmann I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it. Joel Ost

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves.

The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand. William Gurnall I'm going to do things when they are right for me. Paul Gascoigne I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. Liza Minnelli I don't really believe in evil at all. Ian Mcewan Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old. Bode Miller Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater. Ron Fournier I'm always on the court with my dad. Venus Williams I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance. Donald Trump I'm happy to be everybody's gay best friend. Andy Cohen Nothing's funny about someone who's successful. Drew Carey

While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a

small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance. William Dampier Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. Richard Stallman If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert. Andrew Weil What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves. Amelia Barr Collecting is more than just buying objects. Eli Broad But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. Andrew Motion I've got thick skin. Curt Schilling I remember even getting kicked out of a bar once because I was too loud and obnoxious. Liz Phair I have never been a superstar and never believed in it. Amitabh Bachchan I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can

be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed. Ron Kind Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance. Issa Rae I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction. Judith Krantz It's so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything. Nicole Miller To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin. Edwin Louis Cole The amateur tweets. The pro works. Steven Pressfield Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us. Tom G. Palmer I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible. Kesha There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. Billy Connolly My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. Helen Du

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the

road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life. Rita Coolidge My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do? Steve Wynn You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it. George J. Mitchell What good is it to live a life that brings pains? Aeschylus I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges. Zachery Ty Bryan You can see it right away when a person is dressing outside of who she is. Nicole Richie My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her. Laura Schlessinger America is just downright mean. Michelle Obama That was a

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as

another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe. David Mamet I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally. St. Vincent I started a recording studio. I started producing people and doing remixes. James Iha I've been a gamer all my life. Tiger Woods Just because something has tubes doesn't mean it's the best. I mean, tubes are obviously good, but the circuit of this thing is designed well and it sounds good. Dweezil Zappa I have no family to take care of. Park Geun-hye It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well. Ray Nitschke I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person. Robert Mapplethorpe I try to eat fruit and be healthy. Lara Stone I'm a huge dog nut - giant, giant. Jill Abramson

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas

of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years. Gordon Brown Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. Tim Robbins Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. John F. Kennedy You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. Sammy Davis, Jr. I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line. Claire Foy All the young designers now are doing something interesting. Lazaro Hernandez I think any woman can be transformed by a beautiful dress and high heels. Linda Gray It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me. Ho Chi Minh You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message. Scott Walker But surrealism is present in most of my pictures. Vincente Minnelli

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates

a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life. Jon Meacham There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful. Lena Headey When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits. Andrea Mitchell Maybe I'm secretly in my soul a method actor. Poppy Montgomery I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure. Jessica Hahn Love's tongue is in his eyes. John Fletcher Local people do want to see more police on the streets. Theresa May Adrenaline has always been my thing. Tom Holland Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage. Tertullian

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between

takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly. Eddie Murphy You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time. Seth I don't believe in hasty marriages. Anna Held In football, the good thing is things can change in a second. Didier Drogba I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. Elton John In politics, there are no friends. Marian Wright Edelman Well, I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods. Imogen Cunningham I think there's a difference between God and religion. Sinead O'Connor Europe is a miracle. Hillary Clinton Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more. Jill Abramson

You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone

is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them. Mehmet Oz A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway. Lewis Thomas I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down. Annie Baker My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement. Lisa Whelchel And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands. James Young I can't eve

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My uncle inspired me, and it was because of him that I become a wrestler,

but besides him, the one Superstar that really caught my attention growing up as a kid was 'Macho Man' Randy Savage.Rey Mysterio It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a Trojan-horse zealot who came into Komen and within 10 to 11 months had completely turned the place upside down. That's clearly not who I am, and it's not what happened.Karen Handel Once you become president, you don't even have to stop for red lights. And if it looks like traffic's too bad, you just take a helicopter.H. W. Brands From Julia Child to 'The Galloping Gourmet' and the Food Channel and Cooking Channel, our fascination with the spectacle of cooking has been a mainstay of TV entertainment.Chuck Norris I want to love. I want to enjoy life.David Cassidy The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.William M. Daley I was set to confront the might of the

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform,

or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value. Anita Roddick The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth. John Polkinghorne I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game. Rafael Palmeiro I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous. Susan Collins When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up. Shaun White I read everything. I've always got a b

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself

or see much of what I do. I never care how I look. Scott Bakula I was 17 when I released my first record. I didn't really figure out what I wanted to say, how to get a message and put it together. Sydney Wayser I've always liked simple. Growing up, I wore corduroys and Lacoste shirts, Maraolo flats, and maybe one gold bracelet. Aerin Lauder I started off with violin, then I started learning guitar, then I went to piano. But I self-taught piano just because I enjoyed it. I've always really enjoyed music. Jesse Spencer Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale! Tom Selleck Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. Elie Wiesel Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat. Tom Douglas I'm feeling around for what happens in a post-'Peep Show' world. Robert Webb I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet

a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. Emma Goldman We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything. John Hunter Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it. Aaron Carter God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. Luis Palau Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. Rick Moody We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe. Alfred Kinsey Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. Benjamin Disraeli

One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you

and getting free stuff all the time - but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what's coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you're locked into it. Nick Kroll What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long? Anna Neagle Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere. Henry Thomas A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy. Ron Livingston It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin. Harry Melling They always want me to play myself and th

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the

thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. William Morris So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. Robert Browning As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Ben Hogan And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. Thomas Moore The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. Voltaire Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. William Osler There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties. Lionel Murphy

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We

are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family. Bob Taft We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. Roald Amundsen Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. Roger von Oech Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country. Ian Rush Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. Plato I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. Yvonne Craig No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo. Bruce Hornsby

I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons

why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive. Peter Weir With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest. Guy Johnson Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain. Paul Daniels Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration. Barbara Smith I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it. Michael Phelps Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there

I'd say I'm a bit antimadridista although I do not know where my future will

be, but it's a team that I never liked. I get the impression that it is an arrogant club, about how the players are. Without humility, you cannot get anywhere. Isco I'm very big on doing my own thing. Rob Kardashian When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point. Lily Cole I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes. James Garner I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5. Tess Gerritsen Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it. Octavia E. Butler Women are liked better when they lose. Gloria Steinem Our TV and

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

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