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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been

bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. Oswald Spengler I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor. David R. Brower I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length. Dirk Benedict A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. Jean de la Bruyere You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge. Ernst Zundel Who should have spent their money on a brain implant? Anne Robinson Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. Terry Pratchett

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn

how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. D. W. Griffith It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day. Andrew Wiles We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly. Judy Holliday The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. Frederick William Robertson If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. Phil Jackson What we wanted from an agent depended on what he brought in. Markus Wolf I get very driven by certain themes and ideas. Alex Winter

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary

persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Nicolaus Copernicus Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. Ed Koch Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. Oprah Winfrey I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op. William Baldwin Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume. Sean Young No clock is more regular than the belly. Francois Rabelais At least is was a victory and at least we won. Bobby Moore

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on

the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album. Catie Curtis There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. Preston Manning Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. Rush Limbaugh Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. Jim Hightower You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific. Doc Hastings The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes yo

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural

strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them. Kent Conrad Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough. Richard M. DeVos My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality. Ethan Hawke I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath. John Harvey Kellogg And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular. James Randi Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L. Mencken

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all

these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that. John Robinson I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey. John Eaton To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it. Bobby Vinton A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. Amy Irving When one teaches, two learn. Robert Half I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything. Jack Kelley

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn

everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. Chuck Yeager If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves. John Bates Clark Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. John Ruskin The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star. Francis William Aston They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out. Lester Bowie I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mahatma Gandhi As you make your bed, so you must lie in

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares

and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest. Anna Kournikova Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me? Barbra Streisand I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing. Silvia Colloca I never forgive, but I always forget. Arthur Balfour I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. Alan Brien The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Arthur Schopenhauer If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids. Keith Emerson

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of

it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes. Algernon Sidney America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. Louis D. Brandeis Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid. Robert Ashley We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. Bill Maher You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. Grace Paley I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink. Joe DiMaggio Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but

I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your

niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl. Kelly Clarkson I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet. Drew Curtis In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? Jamie Foxx Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal. Catherine Keener It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. Tony Robbins Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership. Bob Etheridge We all live with the objectiv

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time

to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens. Samuel Gompers Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. Marilyn Hacker When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it. Alva Noto Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. Ted Engstrom I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business. Erin Moran My favorite wines are Zinfandels. Thomas Keller No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning. Richard Petty

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I find that on serialized television it's wiser to hit the ground and look forward,

and take the cues from the writers and the events happening, otherwise you just tie yourself in knots. Dallas Roberts I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character. Vin Diesel I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire. Brandon Stanton Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff. Graham Moore I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored. B. D. Wong Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference b

I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand

all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element. Eric Davis My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin. Page McConnell I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come. Gloria Gaither You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. Gijs de Vries A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues. Otis Rush I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom. Brenda Blethyn The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. Harriet Ann Jacobs Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others. Dou

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer

an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time. Deepak Chopra I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away. Tony Judt I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.' Ursula K. Le Guin I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting! Pablo Picasso What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract? Bill Goldberg I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay

employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys. Jeffrey Pierce I am basically in awe of every family's ability to make decisions for their kids. Rebecca Stead I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001. Garth Risk Hallberg My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't really have a function as a useful artist in that anymore. Athol Fugard Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out. Rush Limbaugh We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times. Jason Wu No, I don't think I'm ever going to get serious. Blake Shelton I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think

I created this picture of this character who would play the guitar effortlessly, who had

no limitations, performing beautiful music, and he moved around with great acrobatic skills, just capturing the audience and being a great entertainer. Steve Vai From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too. Melissa George I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations. David Steinberg I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did. Carrie Fisher I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addicti

It is by God's grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek

to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles. David Green Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it saturates the whole being. Sri Chinmoy I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing. Jim Rash If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innovating at a pretty fast pace and getting it to users. Sundar Pichai Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably. S. Jay Olshansky Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and

in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation. Mark Helprin I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite. Denis O'Hare When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me. George Smoot I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today. Tom Brokaw But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse

Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take

a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person. Meryl Streep In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. Christopher Hitchens I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there. Matt Bomer As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender. Chaz Bono I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow in maturity and stability. Mike Yaconelli The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars. Jacqueline de Ribes There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people n

Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one

which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment. Anne Michaels The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. Frank Norris But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all. Gary Sinise Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. Samuel Butler If its not done ethically, advertising won't be trusted. If consumers don't trust it, advertising is pointless. Jef I. Richards Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. Alan Perlis There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better. Mark Shields If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. Virgil Had we but world enough, and time, t

Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing green

screen shooting, so even Hangover II in Bangkok might seem like it's expensive, you're flying over and back, but they're just not that expensive to make when you do it the way we do it which is very focused and I've done it before. Todd Phillips In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. E. O. Wilson This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. Sitting Bull I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road. Lee Ann Womack I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing. Joe Namath I was an expert horseman. Harry Carey, Jr. Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. Aldo Leopold I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out. Jack LaLanne Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. Woody Harrelson Any