brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. Giorgio Vasari Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity. Amanda Seyfried I feel like everything you learn as an actor growing up is wrong. You're supposed to hit your mark, find your light and know your lines. Those are all things that just make things wooden, dull and boring. Joaquin Phoenix Life should be embraced like a lover. Rose Tremain How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work. Patrick Swayze My family was my guide to my reality. Haywood Nelson I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli. David Johansen Always I pay. Always I pay. How do you know Gelli? What do you want? How much do you want? Roberto Calvi I was r

That never did appeal to me. Jimmy Carter Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that. Benedict Cumberbatch In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community. John Buchanan Robinson I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler. Gordon Ramsay Free Tibet before free trade. Zhu Rongji The world is full of more interesting things than my voice. Harvey Fierstein Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Daniel Burnham You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else. George Weinberg My approach has always been rather sensual. Jil Sander The music I do is food... that

the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world. Fred Hampton I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that. John Hewson I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book. Christopher Paolini I sang in choir as a kid. Scott Weiland Music is an essential part of my life and I'm completely lost without a good album to listen to or my iPod in my pocket! Alfred Molina Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. Eugenio Montale I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage. Charlie Hunnam I was born a singer. I need to do that. Nana Mouskouri The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is. Me

the Alabama/Georgia game last year sitting right in the middle of the Alabama section and saw that they rolled all over them! Brian Jordan By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world. Diana DeGette God isn't really interested in our batting averages. Dale Murphy I Google everyone I meet and I look up designers. Christian Siriano It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers, engineers - everyone in the team. David Leslie I've done yoga, and I want to start Pilates soon. Monica Keena It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England. Dudley North Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me. Jesse McCa

we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons. Bootsy Collins If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write. Ben Elton I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes. Catherine Malandrino The purpose of a business is to create customers. Sam Wyly How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one? Rachel Cusk Our literature is in great shape. James Welch Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages. Spiro T. Agnew The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another. Brian Eno The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history. Mike Fitzpa

you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy. Zooey Deschanel Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out. Adam Lambert All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.' Olga Kurylenko I've never seen myself as sexy. I see myself as a goofball. Nicole Scherzinger I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance. Chris Evans I always do my interviews face to face. Rachel Weisz I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. Taylor Swift When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. Tim Berners-Lee You know I'm an actress, not just a funn

away from my children. I have a really religious satellite phone call every day back to the boys, wherever we are, whatever time zone, to say goodnight. Bear Grylls If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids. Tom Conti If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care? Al Sharpton Politics makes estranged bedfellows. Goodman Ace Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. Franz Grillparzer I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one. Benjamin Cohen There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music. Calvin Harris I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports. Stanley Ho I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football. Dennis Bergkamp I try not to write jokes that are mean. I try my best to write jokes that are pretty universal and jokes that don't attack anyone. I know I often fall short of that and end up taking unfair swipes at people, but I try not to. Simon Rich In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. Florence King I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology. Clifford Geertz Acting is such a weird job. Michael Cera You can feel the vibes, feel the people pulling for you. Julius Erving You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs. Don Young All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic. Will Friedle But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will. Bill Sien

My mother thought I had learning disabilities. Roger Goodell Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom. John Bolton If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed. Juliana Hatfield I have no desire to go back to San Francisco. Sara Zarr But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work. Marie Windsor My aim is just to make good music every single time. Lil Wayne This is the war I fear. Lord Mountbatten The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured. Francis Maude I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party. Ho Chi Minh But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people. Uma Thurman

more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here. John Shelton Reed Superior writers, videographers and other content makers want to work with their own kind and for their own kind. Nick Denton Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return? Epictetus I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever. Mark Boal Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished. Bootsy Collins No such thing as a Dixiecrat. H. Rap Brown I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff. Katey Sagal I want to be surrounded by women, I want to be snuggled and cuddled and pampered. Jason Mraz The worst thing in the world is to be

or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening. Zoe Saldana One thing that God revealed to me is that we as Christians are going to have to get a portion of the media so that we can present the good news on a major basis the way that they're presenting the bad news on a major basis. Reggie White A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection. Warren Farrell It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle. Brad Garrett Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. William Christopher Handy I didn't see a ton of movies growing up. Kelly Preston I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist. David LaChapelle But I'd have to say Young Frankenstein, which I can watch forever. Jaso

me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant. Georgina Chapman People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.' Jennifer Weiner In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. Alfred Russel Wallace A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death. Charles de Secondat I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.' Haile Gebrselassie A team takes on the personality of the head coach. Ricky Williams I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars. Conrad Black I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film. Mads Mikkelsen I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from ind

time. We just wanted to be heavier than everybody else! Geezer Butler If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it. Ray Romano I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations. Stephen Chbosky The Queen is the ultimate dictator. Morrissey Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. William Vickrey Success will ruin your life. Tom Clancy I was not scared at all. Nik Wallenda Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense. Alfred Bester I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is. Edward James Olmos I guess I'll retire s

you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining. Woody Harrelson The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different. Viggo Mortensen The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream. Azar Nafisi Good things happen when you meet strangers. Yo-Yo Ma People named their kids after me! Chad Everett I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy. Red Skelton Headline writing is an art form. Jennifer Lee We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption. Patti Stanger Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you. Mark Batterson When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and ma

impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. Christopher McDougall People say, 'All my son will read is 'Captain Underpants,' or 'My son is crazy about shark books, is that O.K.?' I want to be the person to say, 'Yeah, that's really O.K., as long as he's motivated to want to read.' Jon Scieszka I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty. Sarah Paulson I'm very serious about acting. Victor Garber I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people. Andy Roddick One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head. Billie Holiday The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. Robert Rauschen

the passage of time. Richard Dawkins Altogether apart from that, it would be a disgrace to us to make this bargain with Germany at the expense of France, a disgrace from which the good name of this country would never recover. Edward Grey What is the 'noble cause' for which you sent our country to war? Cindy Sheehan I feel like it's my job to carry the torch. Joan Jett It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination. Judy Blume Dreams do come true. If anyone's proof of that, it's me. Jennifer Hudson But I could also start F1 or rallying. I love rallying much more. Valentino Rossi The Internet is an actor's best friend. Armie Hammer When you do one thing, people think it's right or wrong. Maybe half-half. Li Na The ladies love me and I love the ladies! Mickey Rourke

is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams. Nathan Myhrvold I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. Mel Torme You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas can be brought to fruition. Judd Gregg Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible. Gustav Heinemann We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it. Willard Van Orman Quine The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist. Todd Rundgren Dogs are forever in the push up postion. Mitch Hedberg Where music leads, I follow. Alexander Wang Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture. Tony Hillerman It's always a little different, racing on your hometown tr

only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave. Giuseppe Garibaldi In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. Clay Aiken I drop my kid off at school and then race home, and it's a very limited time. I can only do really serious writing for a couple of hours. And then I always go on a walk, I do a one-to-two-hour walk; I don't go running or hard hiking. Maria Semple Big sisters and brothers... I am telling you, it never changes. Janet Jackson I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous. Bruce Oldfield I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work. David Wain When your future arrives, will you blame your past? Robert Half If he wants to bl

every aspect of our culture and economy. Jim DeMint The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult. Francis Spufford I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre. Jamie Redknapp My passion and energy get mistaken for anger. Gary Oldman I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen. Jerry Weintraub If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe. Bill Nighy I wanted to help women and their families. Tory Burch If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo. Dan Castellaneta As long as I love Beauty I am young. W. H. Davies I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out. Emily Browning

being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover. Steven Strait I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. Carlos Fuentes Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time. Jessica Savitch Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write. Wally Amos Fashion is such an insider's club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat. Nicola Formichetti I never thought about being famous. Damon Wayans The pictures are there, and you just take them. Robert Capa I think of Alan Thicke as Perry Como without the excitement. Gilbert Gottfried Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good. Marisha Pessl I didn't decide to become a musician until the age of 15, which is quite late. Evelyn Glennie

really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album. Vanessa Carlton There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery. Jon Krakauer Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,' is the answer. I'm the kind of guy who spends three times as much on his speakers as he does on his television. Mohsin Hamid I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point. Colin Hay I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again. Dee Dee Ramone Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. Francis Bacon And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies. Sophie

environment and the economy, health, and our security. Sylvia Earle With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. Robert Toombs We don't necessarily always agree, but hopefully we make each other think, and that's what matters. Vanessa Kerry Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? Frida Kahlo Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil. Basil Hume The army teaches boys to think like men. Elvis Presley I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball. Kurt Russell The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time. Catfish Hunter Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make th

human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff. Nicholas Jarecki I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV. MyAnna Buring Every president, if you watch what they look like when they come into office, you can see their hair turn white because it's such a hard job. Hillary Clinton I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora. George Papandreou If Google Books is successful, others will follow. Sergey Brin We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?' Damon Lindelof Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard. Jenna Elfman I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist. Richard Dawkins Courteney Cox is such a great actress. Marley Shelton The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. Thomas Malthus

effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians. Saint Basil I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play. Gary Vaynerchuk It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. Richard Le Gallienne Reading is my greatest luxury. Louise Brown I don't go for the flash and panache. Paul Walker The first story I finished was when I was six years old. J. K. Rowling By helping others, you will learn how to help yourselves. Aung San Suu Kyi I don't even like to show midriff - it's my characters who are always showing midriff. Jennifer Sky I was an English major. Jenna Bush I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever. Mark McGrath

or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money. Ethan Hawke I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over. Laurel Clark I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama. Greg Louganis In every business, in every industry, management does matter. Michael Eisner In the real world, children love me. Jackie Chan I have respect for beer. Russell Crowe So in my mind I own a lot of house records still. Mark Spitz That doll looks more like a black man than me. Lorrie Fair I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance. Thomas Menino I guess I'm still sort of feisty and a little bit of a tomboy. Kelly Hu

loving the feeling you get after working out all those endorphins. But going there? It's the worst. Lauren Conrad There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest. Neil deGrasse Tyson Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself. Christy Turlington I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance. Wayne Newton Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning. Felix Baumgartner One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. Willard Van Orman Quine I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons. Jason Mraz I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California. Danielle Steel You always think you'

hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of. Julie Burchill I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is. Kara DioGuardi I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?' Candy Crowley You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute. Jim Thome I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador. Raul Julia 'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films. Darren Aronofsky Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world. Arthur Smith Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound. Thomas More Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that. Denise Mina I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up. Mark

directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that. Billy Crystal This joy of discovery is real, and it is one of our rewards. So too is the approval of our work by our peers. Henry Taube I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect. Donna Leon One of the biggest things that happened for me was YouTube. Jake Shimabukuro Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. Helen Rowland It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island. Sherwood Schwartz To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy. Anne Enright Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn. Earl Nightingale I am not a pregnant working mother wronged. Elizabeth Vargas

that wars should be fought over a chessboard and a cup of something to drink. Mattie Stepanek I don't think the roles that I'm necessarily known for in this country are my best work, or even anywhere near it. I didn't think I was great in 'Arcadia.' I think it's a great part and a great play and had a lot of attention. Rufus Sewell The official independence celebration was going to be held over four or five days, and a group of journalists from all over the world was allowed to fly in, because Angola was closed otherwise. Ryszard Kapuscinski Life is hopefully long, so I don't know what the future will bring. Bethenny Frankel I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. Richard Avedon My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano. Tod Machover Vanity is as old as the mammoth. W. L. George Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and cor

do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly. Michael Cooper Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can. Bob Geldof Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves. Colin Quinn I'm not a happy person when I'm working. Michelle Williams I'm like any working mom. Kelly Ripa Maybe life is random, but I doubt it. Steven Tyler I love the shows that are in dingy little dark clubs, smoky, no production whatsoever. Pink My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca. Leonard Cohen I grew up on a tiny little island. Samantha Barks People are pretty strange. Norman Reedus

They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists. Alex Chiu There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working. Thomas Perry I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating. Adam Levine I highly recommend tantric sex workshops. Sheryl Lee Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. Norodom Sihanouk My only fear is the unknown. David Blaine No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one. Sholom Aleichem The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel. Karl Lehmann Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. Maurice Strong I would just love to be able to give back to figure skating. Michelle Kwan

is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. Atifete Jahjaga The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper. Mireille Enos Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't? Charlie Sheen The French are very individualistic. Eric Rohmer You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules. Bernard Pivot I have my family, my children - I have a lot of outside activities. Carlos Ghosn Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information. Ivan Krastev Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser. Tom Clancy An unhappy mother does not raise a happy ch

flat out all the way around, so it's more of an engineering exercise. On a mile, you can't run flat out. You're constantly in traffic, there's more driver involvement. Buddy Rice It was a challenge to my teammates to help me. Wilt Chamberlain I like to go out, but sometimes it's nice to stay cozy at home, watching movies or TV, especially early in the week. Charlotte Ronson I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. Benoit Mandelbrot Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. Graham Greene I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC. Caitlin Rose Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first. Pearl Bailey I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude. Mario Cantone I come from straight theater. Brian Baumgartner I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends. Kiana Tom

all excited, 'My God, how did I ever get here?' Then, about six months later, you say, 'How the hell did the rest of them get here?' Mike Gravel The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased. Charles Hodge Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped. Victoria Woodhull The world doesn't make any heroes anymore. Graham Greene We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it. Jacqueline Winspear Sanctions are not really an economic weapon. Aung San Suu Kyi The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them. David Brooks I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and nev

based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs. Tim Bray When I accepted the commission, I had something of an epiphany in the research I did about the agency, actually the science of espionage. I realized there is a connection between the sciences and the invisible forces of man. James Sanborn Tonight, I concurred with President Bush when he stated that the decisions on future involvement of U.S. troops in Iraq should be left to the Pentagon and not politicians in Washington. Howard Coble I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece. Hedda Hopper Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too. Anna Julia Cooper I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls. Freddy Adu I don't dye my hair and I can go without makeup. Amanda Seyfried There is noth

they actually liked me being around. That was humbling, because Kentucky basketball is a big deal, and I am not the biggest fan - I am just the most notorious one. Ashley Judd I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Damien Hirst The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy. Michael Mandelbaum The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self. Nikolai Berdyaev Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry. Scott Turow Death's in the good-bye. Anne Sexton I can't give political advice to politicians. Glenn Hubbard I love dark chocolate - I could eat it 'til I puke. Behati Prinsloo I like when guests come over

bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen. Lynn Redgrave Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy. Hugh Shelton I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. James Chanos I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. Slavoj Zizek I think as a pregnant woman we're all looking for stuff that makes us all look cute and fashionable and feel sexy when we're pregnant. Jodie Sweetin Every little girl wanted to be Natalie Wood, as did I. Lana Parrilla Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did. Chris Moneymaker The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you. Michael Nutter I

but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. Toni Morrison Climate change is a complex problem with no central lever, and with unequal distribution of resources. Seth Priebatsch It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out. Jeffrey Eugenides I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it. Jackie Evancho We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us. Rod Parsley How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? Constance Baker Motley No one loves the man whom he fears. Aristotle People are so codified - it's sad. Jean Paul G

just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in. Matthew Goode As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water. Martha Beck People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries. Mike Rowe Guns are bad, I tell you. Eminem Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. Benjamin Tucker I'm a wild lady. Not. Kristin Chenoweth The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses. Kit Bond Anybody can be fit. But you have to be patient. Give your body some time to adjust. Sean Faris I like Doritos. I'm usually watching 'The Biggest Loser' eating Doritos. Halle Berry I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between. Lena Dunham

of New Orleans, to have changed and introduced us all to a way of playing, and to a groove and a level of feel in playing funk-jazz. John Scofield Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible. Chester Bennington On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. James Hansen I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player. Bryce Harper My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that the Kroft family did. I kind of grew up on the golf course. Steve Kroft To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. John Churton Collins Creativi

serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life. Vincent Piazza I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. Victoria Woodhull I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home. Karl Malone The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. John Bright I want to be in New York. It's the place to be. Mandy Moore A war between Europeans is a civil war. Victor Hugo Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key. Tom Colicchio The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven. James Cronin The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Phillips Brooks I'm a perfectionist. Natalie Imbruglia

served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways. Harvey Weinstein What's interesting is relative levels of introversion tend to stay the same. If you went back to your reunion from school, you would probably find that if you ranked everyone in your class into terms of levels of introversion and extroversion you'd still be the same rank. Susan Cain I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble. Adam Arkin I love my girlfriend to bits. I'd never do anything to hurt her. Charlie Simpson I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity. Benedict Cumberbatch I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough. Linda McCartney Redheads get so stereotyped. You're e

can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip. Cathy Guisewite I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time. Kiri Te Kanawa Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies' handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago. Bobbi Brown A great American city is fighting for its life. Marc Morial My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. Geraldine Brooks We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country. Jennifer Granholm I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy. Sam Wyly Even as a child, I found a way to survive. Eartha Kitt Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the o

is slipping too. But I'm still around. John Wooden I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen. Bobby Bonilla As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. Swami Vivekananda When I am tanned and in shape I feel confident about my appearance. Peter Andre No-one works for money alone and tapping into what people want from their careers and what they have to offer is essential. Ricardo Semler In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. Piper Perabo Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form. Shelley Berman When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof. Moby David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly. Stephen Stills I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements. Shah

contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse. Octavia Spencer My childhood lacked affection and ambience. Jacqueline de Ribes Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis. Tabare Vazquez When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all. Charlotte Gainsbourg I've always wanted to work in entertainment. My family moved to Orlando when I was 15 so I could make it. Amanda Latona Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way. Bob Dylan I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down. James Stewart I love crazy, gaudy bling. Phillip Lim I'm in a unique position - I can do what I want. Don Imus You could ask any position player and they'll tell you: pitchers aren't athletes. Curt Schilling

Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Thomas Carlyle In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life? Billy Bush The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor. Jennifer Granholm I love food and I love my curves. Jordin Sparks My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. Harvey Pekar I was fascinated by my own prom pictures. Mary Ellen Mark Happiness? No, it's not there for me. Robert Mapplethorpe But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen. Jim Co

it was hiding behind a couple of other genes. Jonathan Katz My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing. David Blaine Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well. Al Michaels Anybody who knew me growing up calls me Vinny. Vince Flynn The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place. Mark Hyman Americans are not saving enough for retirement. Tammy Baldwin I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers. Gianni Versa

across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. Desmond Tutu I've always been attracted to action stuff. Danai Gurira The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. Charles Horton Cooley A song can take you to a special time in your life. Kevin James Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience. Cat Power Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch. Bill O'Reilly What keeps me going is my children. Louis de Bernieres I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by. Lenny Wilkens I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. Isabel Allende I hated the royal wedding. Morrissey

out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs. Carol Vorderman I do vote but I don't think that any political party represents my point of view. Rupert Sheldrake Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore. James Dyson I love it when people send me body parts. Kesha His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork. Mae West I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy. Bonnie Wright We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs. Travis Barker Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. Grandmaster Flash Economic opportunities will win the women's vote. Cathy McMorris Rodgers The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. Marina Warner

shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night. Mariel Hemingway I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete. Chris Cleave I was going out for absolutely everything that was in Backstage. Rob Corddry Despotism is a long crime. Victor Hugo When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home. Jasper Fforde Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy. Erika Slezak The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. Augustus Hare I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right. Julia Gillard I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. David Blaine I love clothes and I love fashion. Ashley Tisdale

the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! Victor Hugo Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures. Tadashi Shoji I guess I rooted for the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Benicio Del Toro I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life. Katie Cassidy One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people. Gerard Depardieu I'd definitely like to go to college some day. Kiernan Shipka I have a purity ring. Teyana Taylor Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do. Vanessa Hudgens There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system. Joschka Fischer I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future. Perry Farrell

to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance. Bode Miller The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights. Hideki Tojo It will kill four times as many Americans as AIDS will over the next decade. I feel that what ever kind of disability God has given me, as an entertainer and as a public figure, it is so I can be a representative for others. Naomi Judd I go to school the youth to learn the future. Robert Frost I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that. Vincente Minnelli War is a profane thing. Norman Schwarzkopf There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. Robert Ballard Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?

working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work. Douglas Booth All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless. Emilio Estevez Young people who were relaxed about posting every detail of their life on Facebook become a lot less relaxed when they realise just how transparent their life has become to future employers. Geoff Mulgan Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. Baruch Spinoza There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago. Buddy Rich Women love working together. That's my experience anyway. Shirley MacLaine It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. Miguel de Unamuno If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists. Sydney Schanberg My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting! Katey Sagal There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more cl

I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility? Monica Lewinsky Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good. Cobie Smulders I'm on a search for my future ex-wife. Richie Sambora I've been pretty fortunate. Brett Favre You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time. Marvin Hagler I love my mother. I reach out to my mother. Jeanne Phillips So many people have so much trouble having kids. Courteney Cox The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems. Eduard Shevardnadze We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage. Robin Morgan Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. Sepp Blatter

dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life! Meg Cabot I didn't even want to sing, honestly. I started thinking about how long the journey was, how far all of us had come - me and Jessica Sanchez, Hollie Cavanagh and Josh Ledet and everybody. It's insane, man. It's not as easy as you think. Phillip Phillips I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Unknown Acting is a form of confusion. Tallulah Bankhead To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. Reba McEntire The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling. Hillary Clinton I feel like I have to top myself every film I do, and it gets hard. Rick Baker I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top a

think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it. Max Lucado People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.' J. K. Simmons I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free. Annie Lennox I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got. Freddie Mercury A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. Doris Lessing Technically, I'm a New Yorker. Charlie Day It's fun to be a girl, and get dressed up, but that's not how I really am. Sung Hi Lee We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families. Marion Jones For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no. Jilly Cooper I mus

they reach 50. It happens in real life, too. Candice Bergen I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on. T Bone Burnett I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film this,' as opposed to have to belt it out of ourselves in a theater auditorium. Clive Owen Every religion there's something foul going on. Ja Rule The Internet has always been, and always will be, a magic box. Marc Andreessen If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick. A. J. Langer When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. Ausonius I don't like the blame game, though. Barbara Bush The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on. Van Morrison I am not a big facial person. But I do love a body scrub. Daria Werbowy

built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything. Dylan Moran I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.' Sean Paul I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area. Willie Stargell I understand men much better than most women I know. Catherine Bell My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch. Russell Crowe As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me. Jai Rodriguez The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know. Paul Reubens I believe that you should move and eat right. Randy Jackson I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch. Lauren Conrad He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity. Ben Jonson

we need to be skeptical about a lot of these stories that we hear and to put them in context. Bjorn Lomborg Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected. Michael Symon In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created. Kim Weston A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to. George Jean Nathan The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur. Alan Parsons In fact, the world needs more nerds. Ben Bernanke I don't get offered many comedies. Anna Maxwell Martin It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record. Usain Bolt I volunteer with School on Wheels in Los Angeles, and I also tutor with Koreh L.A. Rachelle Lefevre And abou

little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.' Janine di Giovanni Presidents often disappoint, but first ladies rarely do. Kitty Kelley When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started. Jose Mourinho I've been very lucky in my life. Joe Gold It's my job to help people so that God can continue to help them live out the mission that they have... they've got to be healthy to do that. Lee Haney Boston is known for its innovation. Thomas Menino I'd rather make less money and live in a just world. David Clennon People need to have compassion for others. Frank Bruno In my life, I've dealt with tragedy. Leona Lewis Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life. Nancy Pearcey