scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects. Pope Francis A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper. Robert Rauschenberg I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook. Kathy Reichs A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity. Stephen Chow Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce. Nick Carter Hollywood is something else. It's such an exaggerated idea. The concept of what 'beautiful' really is is ludicrous. Amanda Schull If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product. John Irving I'm not going anywhere. Yo...

we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise. Richard Phillips A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven. Charles R. Swindoll I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy. Patton Oswalt In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it. John Archibald Wheeler My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles. Mohamed ElBaradei I tend to write songs critiquing myself. The best way for me to deal with stuff is to write a song about it... That's not to say all my songs are like that. Ty Segall The most deceptive course in football is straight at the goalposts. Woody Hayes I'm an optimist about other people. I'm ...

affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do. Walter Dean Myers Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure. Bill Murray Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? Dorothy Thompson There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated. Sean Connery Photography must be integrated with the story. James Wong Howe We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations. Gary Locke I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come her...

of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest. Keegan Allen It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent. Russell Baker I think of myself as an Olympian. I have had a dream since I was a very small child. And because I have parents without whom I couldn't have realised that dream. Danielle de Niese It's tough never being right. Eric Shinseki I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed. Alanis Morissette You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything. Bradley Whitford I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like. Dolly Parton Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young. Burt Ward I'm not photographing anything naked t...

a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and Vans shoes that have been the same forever. There are certain things that once you find it, you like it and it's done. I like Italian clothing, like suits from Battistoni and I have a shirt by Piero Albertelli. Roman Coppola Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center. Kit Williams The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner. Roseanne Barr Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more. Hilary Rosen Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that. Sidney Sheldon The idea that there aren't mistakes made constantly in the judicial system is too obvious even to need to mention. James Toback We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done. Nancy Pelosi I th...

what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy. ASAP Rocky I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything. Steve Irwin I moved away for three years and went to Trinidad where I met my wife, Athena. Mathias Rust We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. M. H. Abrams For me, I feel like reality TV is anything but these days. Aubrey O'Day I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist. Kenneth Noland They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan. Barry Sheene The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957. Roger McGuinn I've seen Animal Collective live, and I suffered permanent h...

the right side, no hitting the car, go in right, you'll see a big church, stop and take a left, and you'll have it. By doing this I'm giving a structure of life, a path of light, and showing what happens between me and me, which is something very beautiful. Jean-Claude Van Damme I may as well say it, I have been married three times. C. L. R. James The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days. Jane Smiley It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can. Elvis Presley The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times. Davy Jones Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it. Franz Kafka I don't want to repeat my mistakes. Nastia Liukin I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality...

in the State of Connecticut to make sure they run fairly and efficiently because the Secretary is the chief election official. The Secretary of the State is also the chief business registrar for the State of Connecticut. Susan Bysiewicz I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway. Damian McGinty Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. Jill Lepore I hate the photo shoots. Reed Hastings To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. George MacDonald Music stops you from thinking. Peter Weir When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on. Heinrich Heine You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life. Bob Dylan I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every ye...

rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle. Abbie Cornish I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying. Gregory Harrison I do kabbalistic meditation. It's not unlike time travel; it can change the past and not just the future. You can look at what was lost and go beyond the grief of what was lost. Roseanne Barr Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence. Paul Robeson I am a political person, though not with...

into your life wanting a piece of you, not caring about your wellbeing. The insane schedule is very difficult. Touring looks very glamourous but it's hard and gruelling - the travelling, the meet-and-greets - it was too crazy. Cheryl James The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all. Laura Ingalls Wilder My skills are musical, not lyrical. Brian Wilson Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear. Helen Dunmore In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. Arthur Schopenhauer Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that. Sam Worthington I will not be in the positio...

as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none. Larry Kramer I haven't met a woman without insecurities. Lauren Conrad But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here. Preston Brooks Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. Hans Urs von Balthasar The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost. Kevin Eubanks So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so. Francesca Annis NASCAR fans are very knowledgeable and very passionate. Jimmie Johnson I don't even listen t...

we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something. Mamie Gummer There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them. Lactantius In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough! Kenny Chesney Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other. Simon Le Bon Luck is the residue of design. Branch Rickey The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad. Eric Ripert I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself. Dree Hemingway Architecture is a ...

better. But I don't dwell on it because I'm waiting for the next time something happens and try to believe that my past experience will have helped to educate me in terms of how I deal with future ones. David Stern Acting to me is real life - I don't act. Bai Ling It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. Ryan Phillippe In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do. Delta Burke Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are. Chuck Hagel Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. John Webster What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish. David Sarnoff People have always thought of me as...

Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now. Maynard Webb I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House. Mark Goddard A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me. Abigail Breslin We are at war with enemies that still have the intent to do further damage to Americans at home and abroad. Bradley A. Blakeman It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk. Luca Parmitano I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't. Olivia Munn I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to. Eugene Ormandy The artist is not responsible to any one. His social r...

You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, 'Yo - don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom.' Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean? Phife Dawg When it moved to Friday night it disappeared, when they find another show that can do what The Simpsons does, they will be delighted to do cancel The Simpsons. Harry Shearer Your best protection is to have an established agent make the contact. Penelope Spheeris Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States. Paul Weyrich Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.' Jonathan Raban I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing. Alexis Arguello You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see ...

going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day. Bryce Harper I don't believe that human beings can achieve ultimate enlightenment, because humans have flaws. Tiger Woods I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am. Tamar Braxton Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged. Felicity Huffman Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all. Sophocles Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up. Amelie Mauresmo Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy. Franz Schubert I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's...

say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character. Gabrielle Union We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq. Xavier Becerra I did not bring Deism into Bavaria. Adam Weishaupt I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It's not a bargain if your house burns down. Lara Spencer You learn on every film so much. Andrea Arnold I study to learn, to be an educated person. Gary Sinise The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties. George Saunders I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire. Toni Braxton I have often found that no matter where I meet people in the world, there is a path that leads back to Queen's. Liam Neeson

and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you. Max Irons I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better. Jada Pinkett Smith You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare. John McCain Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears. John Legend Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel. Brian Celio On any movie I'm involved with, I say what I think. Sean Penn Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it d...

because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast. Kate Burton The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause. Zadie Smith That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied. Ernie Harwell So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it. Michelle Obama If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality. Jay Alan Sekulow Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you...

to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel. Leslie Jamison Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself. Imogen Heap When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. Will Durant A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that. Michael Newdow The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. Victor Hugo We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. Ethel Percy Andrus Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in ...

sweat it in olive oil, adding just a little oil at time so it crisps. Then I cover it with boiling water, not stock, which really brings out the flavor of the zucchini, add lemon, thyme, and serve it with burrata and a fried zucchini flower. Tom Colicchio I never wanted to be a star. Sherry Stringfield Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself. Zadie Smith I was involved in the anti-war movement. Bill Ayers Fear is always a good motivator. James Dyson The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s. Sylvia Earle As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business. Rocco DiSpirito I can't speak on behalf of th...

who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. Tony Parsons I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological. Marilynne Robinson Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No. Michael Jordan One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized. Nathan Myhrvold When I was younger, things got to me more, but not now. Holly Valance Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces. William Gurnall I'm not naturally manipulative. Benjamin Netanyahu Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. William Styron The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are ...

black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future. Frank Tipler I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. Kathryn Lasky But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes. Bodhidharma I made a better decision in choosing my team. Sure, I had a bigger choice of players to choose from - but I couldn't have asked for a harder working group of players who did an incredible job. Vladimir Kramnik Kids love to be scared - there's way to do it right, and ways to do it wrong. Henry Selick Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy. Bjorn Borg Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in ...

tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two. Neil deGrasse Tyson I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists. Lady Gaga My plan is, I'm in the process of creating a production company called Tall Girls productions. I want to be doing both film and television. I'll never leave television. I just love working in it too much. Melissa Rosenberg I believe health care is a civil right. Dennis Kucinich Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to. Leon Spinks The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior. J. Philippe Rushton My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong. Regina King I ne...

for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge. Christina Hendricks The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. Felix Frankfurter Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in. Will Rogers What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? Raoul Vaneigem I don't recognize any law but the Sharia of Islam. There is no compromise. John Walker Lindh Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding. Ken Livingstone What I do for a living is listen. Val Kilmer I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things. Will Gluck...

out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter. Bernard Goldberg My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ. Lee Strobel One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service. Sean Hannity I've never had white teeth. To be honest, I've never been told to do any of those horrible things - get your teeth whitened or your nose straightened. Helena Bonham Carter I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days. Tom Cruise Movies are great, TV is great. Jeremy Sumpter You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs. Bryan Clay ...

to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge. Geoff Mulgan I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting. James McAvoy Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them. William Dampier This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks. Viggo Mortensen We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP. Michael Steele I'm a morning person, so rising at 4...

I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject. Simon Hoggart I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax. Doris Kearns Goodwin You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do. Karl Rove I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there. Jim Jarmusch You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old. Jackie Collins But Gargoyles...

I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat. Fergie The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. Hugh Jackman I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.' Frances O'Grady You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance. Eden Phillpotts The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream? Edmond Rostand I like to play snooker, golf as well. John Terry I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent. Bernie Worrel...

change in Internet media isn't the immediacy of it, or the low costs, but the measurability. Which is actually terrifying if you're a traditional journalist, and used to pushing what people ought to like, or what you think they ought to like. Nick Denton If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for? Ai Weiwei There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions. Rich Lowry Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done. N. Scott Momaday My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. David James Duncan Expectation is the mother of all frustration. Antonio Banderas I...

marry profit and purpose. The reason brands participate is that such outreach earns those companies social currency enabling them to start or participate in conversations that connect them to consumers in meaningful ways. Simon Mainwaring And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives. Mitt Romney I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. Arthur Smith Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy. Jehane Noujaim I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films. Joan Allen War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. Jeannette Rankin I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, India...

and as a designer you are constantly walking through the world assimilating those visual references you have and so being able to solidify that into a photograph and keep it on your mood board is essential to creating a collection. Georgina Chapman Clean up your own mess. Robert Fulghum I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery. Bruno Mars In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991. Peter Lynch There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night. Patrick Duffy You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad. Benicio Del Toro It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage. Paul Lynde You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. ...

other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass. Cyrano de Bergerac Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. Sophocles Clearly I've got an ego. Thomas Heatherwick I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting. Dabney Coleman The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged. Joni Eareckson Tada 'Breaking Away' was a great experience. It's the kind of movie that engenders a lot of goodwill from people. Dennis Christopher Most people are not shocked that I am occasionally rude to journalists. They are probably amazed I don't punch one in the face. Ken Livingstone If you are unable to understand ...

what we're trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That's what I have to do. Russell Simmons Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy. Tammy Baldwin You have to open up on stage. Karen O Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures. Elliott Erwitt Cancer is an emotional disease. Marina Abramovic Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life. Jimmy Wales I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society. George Soros For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit. Peter Munk I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own st...

through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience. Shane Black I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis. Mary Ann Mobley The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. Charles Buxton Since the beginning, a woman's first and most important role has been ushering into mortality spirit sons and daughters of our Father in Heaven. Ezra Taft Benson I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way. Dominic Monaghan I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time. Gabourey Sidibe Surprisingly, I...

across the board. We can't just pick and choose where we impose and accept the U.N. resolution and don't accept them. U.N. Resolution 242 is very clear and states very clearly that Israel has to go back to the borders of the pre-war of 1967. Al-Waleed bin Talal You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to. Rita Wilson Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. Chris Abani If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it. Manuel Puig I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man. Pete Townshend I'm lively when I perform and I always put everything into a show, but when I get home I love lying down in front of the TV and relaxing. John Barrowman I think fame comes from actually doing something big with y...

man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself. Miguel The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. Jacques Derrida Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. Kin Hubbard Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. Angela Carter I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe. Devon Sawa The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made. Robert Barany We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families. Dan Lipinski I have worked with some very great directors....

opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society. Matt Taibbi I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood. Irrfan Khan Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy. John Ralston Saul All I have to concentrate on is my performing. Mickey Gilley It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable. Lev Grossman I like my old nose. If I could get it out the cupboard and put it on, then I would. Katie Price We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden. Alexander Skarsgard The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves. Jo Durie I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. Barbara Kingsolver

giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. Khaled Hosseini Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this. Richard Rohr Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy. Napoleon Hill The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor. Benedict Cumberbatch I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work. Todd Barry If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind ...

idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities; otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible. Robert Harris People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest. Edward Norton People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change. Albert Ellis Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy. Beatrice Wood I never really officially retired from the WNBA, I just left the doors open. Sheryl Swoopes The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day. Sophie Kinsella Without a song, each day would be a century. Mahalia Jackson If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. David Brainerd I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. Doris ...

memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming. Sherri Shepherd Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea. Francis Parker Yockey All the time I feel I must justify my existence. Prince Charles Edinburgh is so cultural and such a beautiful place to walk around. Rupert Friend Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space. Jeremy Clarkson I don't like fruit but I'm vegetarian, so eat a lot of veggies. Robin Gibb Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source. Idris Elba Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you. William Glasser I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt ...

also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change. Adam Braun Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. Dario Fo We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist. Hillary Clinton There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place. Peter Mayle I don't consider myself a pariah. Bernie Sanders I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened. Adrianne Palicki People are most important. Lech Walesa The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years? Charles Eames In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. Chris Barber

that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently. Samuel R. Delany I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on. Sophie Ellis-Bextor You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)! Cameron Diaz I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy. Gary Lockwood I adore John Mayer. I don't see how anything that surrounds John could be negative. Jessica Simpson Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. Regina Spektor I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I...

to cover the basics. If I were to write a cookery book, for instance, I would be compelled to say that, to make an omelette, you have to break at least one egg. Actually, that's not a bad idea. Or maybe I should write a sequel and call it 'Bottoms Up?' Pippa Middleton I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.' So I wrote a few chapters of the book that became 'Year of Wonders,' and lucky for me it found its readers. Geraldine Brooks Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension. Herschel Walker The trouble with super heroes is what to do between phone booths. Ken Kesey It's nice to be able to let the fans know that you're around and say 'Hi.' Courteney Cox I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway...

themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. Ani DiFranco We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding! Caity Lotz I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. Jeremy Renner I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way. Robert Griffin III I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing. Bruno Mars Putting l...

as soft time. Time does not go forward there. It's a series of doors that kind of wind back into one another, like a series of doors in the upper floor of a house. You revisit the same lessons over and over again, or you choose to ignore them. Ryan Adams I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step. Rita Dove I kept an interested eye on the transfer window in England, which opened and closed last month, and the lack of frantic activity just goes to show the current financial state of the game right now. David Ginola I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show. Beyonce Knowles You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. Carly Simon It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doo...

my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about. Busy Philipps If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes. Freddie Mercury I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll. Ginger Baker It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. Roger Ebert It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start. Harvey Pekar I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone. Saoirse Ronan Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable. Joe Jonas Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks. Jamie Redknapp Humility is not thinking less of yourself,...

forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.' Steven Pinker Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life. Shannen Doherty It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate. Zadie Smith I go to the airport and I've had everything taken away from me because of the terrorists. People haven't realized yet, though, that we are at war. Victoria Toensing This was a special week and a special victory for me. I played some great tennis. Marin Cilic People love as self-recognition...

of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic. Jane Pauley From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman. Steve Guttenberg Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. Sydney Smith The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. Walter Bagehot I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition. Glenda Jackson I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants. Jeff Miller Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold. Ellie Goulding My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be. Eliot Spitzer My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts educa...

the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home. Jeff Bezos You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe. Charles Haley Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success. Eric Ries I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too. Lorrie Moore My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me. Andie MacDowell Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity. Periander ...

so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies. Joan Cusack Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. Simon Callow You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government. Ralph Steadman The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. Tom Vilsack If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong. Sarah Jessica Parker I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now. Alex Chiu I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems. Gayle King You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, ...

reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important. Scarlett Thomas I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia. Marat Safin Science is our last and greatest frontier. Antony Garrett Lisi For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference. Madeleine Albright Politics is not a healthy lifestyle. Ken Livingstone I don't have to think. My only job is to show up and win. Marlen Esparza We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. John Oates Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive. Wendell Mayes There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant. Je...

I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. Bob Feller If you dress like a movie star, you have me. Steven Cojocaru I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times. Salma Hayek OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. James Nasmyth Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father. Andre Dubus III I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels. Li Na Any editing, software work, and mail is done in this exported Plan 9. Dennis Ritchie Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick. Candac...

existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become. Al Pacino As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot. Jay Hernandez A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to. Gucci Mane I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.' John Hodgman There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion. David O. Sel...

at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones they don't. They will continue to be able to do so. Pauley Perrette These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone. Billy Corgan My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job. Graham Yost You know, it's funny how songs continue to grow and evolve and become a new and deeper reflection of your life. Gloria Estefan The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government. Mitt Romney I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable. Anthony Bourdain Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. Th...

been very vocal about it. And what happens? The demand continues to rise. The only way you can possibly kill demand is with price. So the price of oil, gasoline, has to go up to kill the demand. Otherwise, keep the price down, the demand rises. T. Boone Pickens My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees! Carre Otis I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. Karl Kraus So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better. Craig Johnston If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes. Chuck Grassley I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think. Mark Wahlberg With all of my films if I get one bad re...

pessimist is not that the optimist believes the world is wonderful and the pessimist believes it's beset by challenges; the difference is the pessimist believes we will be defeated by them; the optimist thinks the challenges can be overcome. Tony Blair This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims. Aristide Briand Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter. Tony Gilroy There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. Louis Leakey I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made. Marilyn Monroe The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know an...

of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring. Temple Grandin Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work. William Graham Sumner I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy. Viggo Mortensen I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was? Patty Duke When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. Adam Weishaupt Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. Dick Schaap Often the presence of mind an...

also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds. Andrew Dost You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance. Summer Glau As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. Nicholas Pileggi If I'm hanging around too much, my wife and kids say, 'Hey, why don't you go downstairs and start a new novel?' Nick Cave In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school. Jennie Garth My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky. Katy Perry I wish I had a great relationship with my mother. Chely Wright People think that as a celebrity, you have to have ...

where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern. Juan Williams There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world. Miley Cyrus It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command. Ned Beatty I always had a fascination with music. Miguel I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes. Theresa May Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth. Bud Selig Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover. Marlo Thomas There are certain mutations you can find acr...

for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was. Christina Romer This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed. Angela Merkel Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working. Mike Rowe I think if a person plays 'Quantum Conundrum' and they walk away feeling really intelligent and skilled, that's what I want. That's my only goal. Kim Swift I haven't had an orthodox career. Sally Field I don't go down the road of condemning. Joel Osteen I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive. Doutzen Kroes A terrorist nuclear detonation in a western city would destroy all economic confidence. John Bruton We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half t...

the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue. David Oyelowo Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving. Jonathan Davis The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount. Kenneth Blackwell It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place. Vernon Jordan That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life. Barbara Mandrell I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through. Barry Unsworth Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to pla...

my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul. J. Michael Straczynski Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code. Larry Wall You know, it's not the people in Hollywood who go to see movies that will make a movie successful; it's the people all around the country; it's word-of-mouth. Pia Zadora My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. Harry Mathews I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second. Kristin Lehman Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible. Fisher Stevens It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this. Artie Lang...

I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves, driven by the people and which the parties picked up favorably. Michelle Bachelet I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it. Isabel Allende Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business. David Neeleman Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. A. N. Wilson You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen. Lionel Messi We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. James Harvey Robinson Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. Simon Newcomb My b...

I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things. Gerhard Richter I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy! Beth Ditto Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent. Roger Moore Don't we all just really try to fake it well? Yancy Butler Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. George McGovern Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image. Catherine Tate Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans ...

like the old guys in 'The Muppets,' just throwing out comments all the time, whereas there are other people on the ground really trying to affect things and improve their lives and the lives of other people. I think it's noble and I think it's cool. Josh Radnor Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline. Mark McKinnon He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. James Russell Lowell The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation. Leslie Charteris You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone. Patrick Wilson I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world. Satish Kumar But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy. Diane Lan...

we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system. Marco Rubio I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too. Gil Scott-Heron I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said. Jeff Ament I never thought I could win the French Open. Li Na I'm a Taurus, you know. A bull. I belong in a field. Matt Roper No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. Theodore Bikel I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet. Angus T. Jones The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise. Peter O...

man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. Annie Besant I mean, what Fiat had it was not very big, it was something like forty or fifty million dollars, but it's enough to get revolving credit, to get starting away again, the buying of new machinery. Gianni Agnelli This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him. Richard M. Helms I don't even have my own computer. Daley Thompson One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before. H. G. Bissinger The runway symbolizes something in society that's very intimidating to women. Tyra Banks A woman may race to get a man a gift but i...

in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass. Jimmy Fallon It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense. Marilyn Manson The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. Augusto Roa Bastos My time in the World Rally Championship has been a useful stage in my career, but I can't deny the fact that my hunger for F1 has recently become overwhelming. Kimi Raikkonen Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films. Catherine Deneuve Tradition has made women cowardly. Nance O'Neil I'm a human being and every human being has problems. Jonathan Davis I didn't hate being 60 a...

candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days. Juan Williams It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to. Phil Gramm One of the first things I bought when I made 'Roseanne Show' money was a farm in Iowa. Roseanne Barr The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order. Steven Van Zandt I'm sure if you dig deep, Joe and Ralph Fiennes do it because they want to be noticed. Steve Guttenberg I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic. Joe Scarborough In fact, almost every job you get somebody wa...

hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting. Joanne Froggatt I just don't lose weight easily. Melissa McCarthy Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter. Jessamyn West I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them. Daniel Woodrell The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other. Ja Rule You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand. Chili Davis You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made. Simon Pegg Music is a very big participant in everything I do...

carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums. Martin Filler It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world. Hope Davis Star Trek is perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me, in a career sense. DeForest Kelley I would never finish a painting if I didn't have a deadline. Peter Doig Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. Henry Williamson I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. Sidney Poitier I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away. Al Goldstein I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't hav...

I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks. Ellie Goulding Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done. John Keegan Love is an interesting thing. Lady Gaga Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost. David Neeleman I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. Julian Casablancas Dancing is a beautiful thing. J. R. Martinez The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them. Rocco Buttiglione I want to go out on my terms. Misty May-Treanor I...

a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place. Kobe Bryant For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. Georg Simmel We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is. Shimon Peres Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move! Margaret Cho I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.' Amy Waldman I never rode in an automobile until I was 12. Loretta Lynn I can't tan naturally. Jenny Eclair Now we have to hit them from a different angle. Shawn Wayans From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should ...

have never been that big of a fan of its flavor. As for extra-virgin olive oil, I do use it quite often but its ubiquity serves to overshadow many wonderful oils like pistachio, walnut, argan and even grapeseed. Lela Rose Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing. Jonny Greenwood I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views. Vince Cable I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response? Pat Roberts I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me. Sam Raimi I grew up watching 'Braveheart' and 'Gladiator.' T...

conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle. Emanuel Steward I believe Costco does more for civilization than the Rockefeller Foundation. I think it's a better place. You get a bunch of very intelligent people sitting around trying to do good, I immediately get kind of suspicious and squirm in my seat. Charlie Munger The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth. Timothy Radcliffe I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September. Lisa Snowdon I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character. Amber Heard Mistakes show us what we need to learn. Peter McWilliams Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products...

discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. Charles Stanley I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so. Larry Holmes I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true. David Mixner Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds. L'Wren Scott Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider. Jesse Eisenberg I've never been much of a joiner. Sean Parker All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool...