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If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and

I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that. Sissy Spacek I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. John Lydon Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments. Meg Whitman I like criticism. It makes you strong. LeBron James Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun. Meshell Ndegeocello And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children. David Neeleman Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. William Eardley IV My mom and my dad are ebullient people, and I think I carry that with me. Michael Stuhlbarg The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations. Jamie Dimon There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection. ...

I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able

to talk about in a drama. Jason Reitman What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it. Anita Hill New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. Tom Holt The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage. Candice Swanepoel No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. Adam Smith I just can't believe all the things I did that decade. Dick Schaap In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. Louis Kronenberger Under each formula lies a corpse. Emile M. Cioran I was never really a comic-book fanatic. J. J. Abrams You can divide my life into two. Lord Mountbatten

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while

teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. Roald Dahl As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous. James Woolsey I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny. Lena Headey I always look back to awards shows and think about being a kid watching them. Luke Bryan But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job. Donald Sutherland I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. Christopher Hitchens I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road. Karl Lagerfeld I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth. Willie Nelson Not even Ares battles against necessity. Sophocles I believe in criticism. Paul Anka

Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people

in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting. Stephen Gaghan I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again. Donald E. Westlake The stage for our whole show is actually really interesting and a lot of fun. There's always something going on so we figure even the people who come up and don't know Big Time Rush love the show because there's always something going on, so that's what we love about it. Logan Henderson I am the oldest young designer in New York City. Michael Kors It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated. Laura San Giacomo Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out. Tim Rice When I think about greatness I just know Ayrton Senna. He was great. Lewis Hamilton I used to hate the sound of my voice. Carole Kin...

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When

you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. Jason Mraz A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike. Jeffrey Kluger When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. Edward Norton We never left a set until we'd trashed it. Uma Thurman But love's a malady without a cure. John Dryden I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired. Courtney Love It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not. Max Cannon I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that. Rick Warren There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst...

I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive,

you're going to be the most optimistic person. Carlos Ghosn I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs. Billy Crudup I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top. Greg Mortenson I watch my YouTube videos over and over. Meek Mill Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects. Christopher Eccleston You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior. Rob James-Collier You can trust Charlie Crist. Charlie Crist Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States. Charlaine Harris Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world. Conrad Wolfram Washington is unpredictable these days. Steve Wynn

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in

God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls. James D. Watson I loved rollerskating when I was younger. Crystal Reed Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. Joseph Murray I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me. M. Ward Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children. Andrew Davies There are so many emoticons these days, I'm kind of old fashioned. Ashley Tisdale I would never say never to returning to comedy. Eric Bana Faith is more basic than language or theology. Sydney Carter Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. Bruce Lee My dad's supportive of all my endeavors. Georgia Jagger

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but

increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening. Ken Thompson I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office. George Pataki For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed. Mary Lou Retton Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13. Harry Connick, Jr. It doesn't seem right for anybody to get so much attention. Aung San Suu Kyi I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me. Taylor Schilling I really believe that we're a studio-based band, and I have always thought that. Josh Silver The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system. Alexis Denisof Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better. Sophia Bush If I don't off...

My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of

success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters. Charlene Tilton I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest. Craig Ferguson When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players. Wayne Coyne A little mordida, here. A little mordida, there. Wolfman Jack I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken. Giancarlo Esposito Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why! Vanessa Hudgens Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say. Richard Whately At least I'm going into the job with clean hands. Pete Rozelle I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends. Paris Hi...

Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one

of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie. Ellen Page I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective. Norman Jewison I'd always avoided stuff like 'Where are they now?' or 'Whatever happened to?' Just 'No thanks, thanks for calling.' You tell me, have you ever seen a 'Whatever happened to' where they seemed anything but pathetic? Jackie Earle Haley Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. Peter Ustinov I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood. Heath Ledger Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name. Harriet Ann Jacobs One man cannot practice many arts with success. Plato A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. ...

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper,

everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. Ayn Rand Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. Laurence Sterne I've been married over 50 years of my life. T. Boone Pickens I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway. Anne McCaffrey I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training. Kim Clijsters I do believe quite strongly in evil. Anthony Horowitz When I enjoy doing something, I don't mind if it hurts. Gina Carano He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. James A. Garfield I have a dark sense of humor. Olivia Munn I can't live without my iPhone. Sara Paxton

My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have

a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church. Val Kilmer As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth. Rush Limbaugh I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected. Louise Brown I'm too much of a big kid. Iain Glen I am always locked in my design studio. Valentino Garavani You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive. Diana Vreeland My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight. Kate Smith The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy. Steve Coogan My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. Michael Pollan I ...

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world,

how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. Raymond Carver From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting. Susie Orbach For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes. Michael W. Smith Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. Robert Smithson I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount. Vidal Sassoon Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish. Ma Jian I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded. Rainn Wilson I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people. Christa McAuliffe My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top. Homaro Cantu It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide. Kim Kardashian

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all

around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution. Lawrence Lessig I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own. Jeff Bridges You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever. Charisma Carpenter I look forward to change, but there is a part of me that absolutely dreads it. Erica Durance In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine. Chris LeDoux My family is the most important thing to me. Kimora Lee Simmons Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride. Gary Allan New York and Los Angeles are really one city, and the rest of the country is America. Marshall Brickman I don...

I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I

play the love of his life. It was really fun to do that. Carrie Preston No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. Christopher Morley For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back. Lloyd Dorfman And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting. John Foster We rule out raising taxes this year. Luis de Guindos All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. Red Skelton PAYE means pay as you earn but it could also mean Pretty Accurate Yet Estimated. John Whiting If you don't get on the field and play then you will be missing out. Michael Schenker Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London As parents we're not nearly as computer literate ...

There really isn't a dream role, but there's a dream situation where I could work

with a director that I idolize. So, the idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me. Logan Lerman If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots. Vijay Singh I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy. Manny Pacquiao I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail. Oliver Reed The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process. William Devane You can't control everything that comes to you. Edward Norton There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data. Ken Thompson I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one. Tony Shalhoub I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it. Feist I can...

Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full

potential, is something that everyone can benefit from. Mandy Moore I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though. Kevin Bacon But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. Linda McCartney We've lost 400,000 jobs in Michigan because of downsizing. Debbie Stabenow It's kind of fun to be sexy. Tea Leoni I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people. William P. Young We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built. Larry Niven The team with the best players wins. Jack Welch There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground. Richard Pryor I don't see myself as a violent guy. Gene Hackman

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have

been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. Salvatore Quasimodo I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted. Janis Ian He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes. Albert Finney I expect we will become more demanding as citizens. Robert Anderson True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches. Ellen G. White 'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show. Rebecca Hall Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven. Keren Ann Obviously, the ultimate dream is to be married for life. Peter Andre The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society. Henrik Ibsen My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. Jane ...

I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because

younger guys have always asked me out and I accept. Jennifer Coolidge But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better. Sarah Chalke I'm going to do a lot of weird stuff that's not going to be like me prancing around like an insane 12-year-old. I showed everybody that side of me and I think it's time to do different stuff, even when it comes down to the type of humor. I want to do some drier, weirder stuff. Andy Milonakis I started writing when I was about thirteen. Al Purdy I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit. Ben Bradlee I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them. Joey McIntyre Honestly, I feel really grateful for everything. Shaun White The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian. B. H. Liddell Hart I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts. Jennifer Lawre...

I think on balance, Don King has been bad for boxing. I think he's done

some very good things and I think he did a heck of a job of promoting Ali but I think I could have promoted Ali. Dick Schaap Now undoubtedly, we face some very British challenges when it comes to infrastructure. We rightly cherish our back yards and green spaces, and we'll defend them passionately when projects are announced. We live in a democracy, and we like to debate these things, often for many years. Evan Davis It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. Raymond Queneau We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy. Jill Bennett I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done. Lillie Langtry We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch. Grace Napolitano How many people out there really set a budget? Nelly My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one. Shelley Berkley Economics is not brain surgery. Ben Carson Yeah, I don...

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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason.

All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. Larry Elder I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead. Frank Black You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again. Tom Petty We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. J. William Fulbright Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelley Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such fr...

It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his

car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest. Richard Hammond Praise the bridge that carried you over. George Colman The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. Winston Churchill 'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival. Al Purdy Hardship makes the world obscure. Don DeLillo I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. Joe Strummer Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Always be smarter than the people who hire you. Lena Horne In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. Ro...

I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and

to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something. Carl Hiaasen My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having. Seth Grahame-Smith I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous. Nanette Lepore Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together. Ozwald Boateng Sanctific...

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts

was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance. Ron Jaworski On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way. Edwidge Danticat 'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style. Adam Kluger While I sign off on trades or free agents, I've rarely overruled my basketball people's decisions. But I'm not shy about steering the discussion or pushing deeper if something doesn't make sense to me. Paul Allen Kids are...

A high nutrient density diet was associated with more feelings of hunger in the mouth

and throat and less in the head and stomach. Joel Fuhrman I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be. Joyce Meyer When a car's ahead of you, as long as you can see it, you get a tow, just like the draft in NASCAR. Even if it's a long ways down the track, it punches a hole in the air that has to help. When you're running alone, you can feel the difference, and it shows on the clock, too. Mario Andretti The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950. Tony Bennett The film I like the best is always the one I'm working on now or next. Ewan McGregor When I have a little down time, I like to go to the gym and try to bank some hours there. I like to spend time with my dogs, go hiking, do a little traveling. Emmanuelle Vaugier When I was in Mexico and started to dream in Spanish, I knew that was a good sign that I was learn...

With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of

all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it. Jason Dolley Shooting movies has changed, and me too - I have changed. And then, every film I do, something in my mind, my soul, changes. My natural change, I change at the same time as the films, I think. Dario Argento It's different as a guest as opposed to being a star of a series. A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It's much different than being a regular. You come in, and it's a lot of unfamiliar faces, and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves. Donnie Wahlberg I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when y...

The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is

exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space. Dana Brunetti I did a pilot for Fox years ago called 'Faceless,' with Sean Bean. I always thought it was such a cool show because it was really raw. I thought we were pushing it. This was back at a time before there was the 'cable standard.' Joe Carnahan I wear two hats. The one is business and increasing my shareholders' value; the other is social responsibility. Guler Sabanci Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents. Kate Williams If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable. Zong Qinghou I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I w...

I studied journalism at university, and I started a little bit of work on a

woman's magazine called Minx that was aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds. Rhianna Pratchett I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation. F. Sionil Jose Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath. Jakob Bohme In my very early days as a journalist, as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, I used to cover the district courthouse in Limerick city - all human life passed through that establishment, and my time there remains a source of inspiration. Kevin Barry If Christians see Mormonism as a dramatic deviation from a millennia-old, biblically-based faith, Jews see Christianity in the same light. Meir Soloveichik My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She ...

I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when

you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space. John Lydon At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you. Lee Krasner I got married and decided I wanted to do a dance record, and I didn't ever expect for it to be what it was or for the 'No Doubt' thing to be such a long break, but it was one of those things where you just had to sort of follow your inspiration. Gwen Stefani Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people. Larry Hagman We need the private sector to succeed, because i...

The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's

greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.' Billy Evans I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment. Adam Hamilton I go through periods where I don't shop at all, and then I go crazy and buy everything in sight. I never know what to wear, and I'm at my worst before an audition. I pull everything out of the closet, throw it on my bed. I'll get entirely dressed and then take it all off again until I'm in a kind of frenzy. Brooke Adams Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked. Edmund White When I hear a great country song, I get chills and I want to cry. You feel something. And just so...