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But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power

belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests. That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us. Marco Rubio The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. William Irwin Thompson I love Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik. Danielle de Niese Always in life bad times will lead to great times. M. Night Shyamalan It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively. Jock Sturges I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer. Pat Benatar History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Philip Roth You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit. Bear Grylls The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different. Charles Dudley Warner

I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points,

style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating. Richard Rohr I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada. Tia Carrere I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it. Raul Castro I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates. Ken Mehlman Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. Antoinette Brown Blackwell No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. Federico Fellini A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species. J. Philippe Rushton Buildings are always better than drawings and mod...

One often forgets that even if art is a very successful field in

contemporary culture, there are still a lot of people alienated by it. Even if people don't fully understand where my work is coming from, at least there's somebody who looks kind of sane standing in front of you and politely engaging with you. People react. Tino Sehgal The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance. Lester Holt When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees. Trey Anastasio I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper. David Brudnoy I do not have very much office experience. B. J. Novak I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. Crystal Eastman No matter how bad things...

If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other

people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?' Aaron Levie Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built. Daniel Libeskind Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find. Neil deGrasse Tyson The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather. Victoria Gotti Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life. Judd Nelson I also surround myself with people who make me laugh. If I'm not laughin...

I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life

that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing. Rachel Cusk I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. Black Elk It doesn't matter if I go on CBS, PBS or Fox. Whoever is interviewing me is going to want to create some conflict in the story, or it's not interesting. That's just the way the news is. Mark McKinnon The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. William Blackstone Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done. Stuart Symington Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved. Anselm of Canterbury ...

Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa,

and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse. Dylan Walsh In all my shows, I'm not interested in the iconic shots of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. I'm always interested in trying to get the culture of the place - trying to get it right. David Nevins Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee. Steven Pinker This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish. Laurent Fabius My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it. Paris Hilton I have total recall. I remember be...

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force

in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have. John D. Rockefeller I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning. Mehmet Oz I just don't want to end up on something that bores the hell out of me. Otherwise, I'll fake a knee injury and get out of there. Sasha Alexander The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business. Ian Somerhalder If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation. Alan Rickman Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Percy Bysshe Shelley In...

Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in

the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality. Baz Luhrmann Whatever you tax, you get less of. Alan Greenspan I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole. Mike Shinoda But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it. Erno Rubik There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don't contribute to the growth of their countries. Hillary Clinton I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old. Len Goodman I'm not a beautiful prom-girl type. Amanda Seyfried There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. Herman Melville One thing I love abou...

When I was young, I used to hear people say, 'He's a golden boy. Look

at that guy. Can you imagine what he's going to be like when he grows up?' Well, I unfortunately bought into that. And I hadn't even found myself. Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio. Glenn Beck Clearly, a stable, unified and democratic Iraq cannot be achieved militarily by the U.S. John Olver My idea is to play with the people who you know want to get it right. Then it's fun and easy to record, and you can get down to details, like taking out cymbals so the verse doesn't dwarf the chorus, something like that. Ben Folds Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up. Rick Renzi Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person. Christie Brinkley The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. A...

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that

they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself. Jerry Saltz I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting. Amy Adams During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home. Emily Watson It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place. Bruce Forsyth I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person. Libby Trickett Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. John Podhoretz As an a...

Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one,

but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present. Nathan Myhrvold Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom. Janine di Giovanni One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just the start of it, of selling goods and services with lightweight mobile apps. John Collison Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? David Byrne Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light. Richard Whately I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. John Lee Hooker Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery. John C. Reil...

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close

with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift. Hans Rosling I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am. Jazmine Sullivan My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics. Eliza Dushku None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves. Mary Astell In general, you don't want to move your kids when they're teenagers. They're not going to be happy with you. Jeremy Sisto Seeing the light is a choice, not ...

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer

of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter. Tony Judt The whole nuclear-arms-control and non-proliferation policy of the nuclear powers is a fraud: The Americans could not prevent the Soviets from replicating their weaponry, and then could not object when the British did the same. Conrad Black If I'm out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I've got a favorite. If I'm jumping, I have a favorite, and if I'm racing, I have a favorite. Evel Knievel I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. Steven Chu Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to t...

My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning

to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete. Joanne Harris Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying. Joe Jonas I really consider my goal is that, wherever I am in life, I want to be a social advocate. Hugh Evans He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be. Colin Quinn Throughout my career I swam for form. Speed came as a result of it. Johnny Weissmuller I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken. Anthony Mackie No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that. Gordon Bethune People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company a...

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other

down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress. Jennifer Garner The receivers are an integral part of the passing game. Hank Stram When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet! Shalom Harlow There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people. Julie Burchill I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian. Padma Lakshmi To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides The last thing businessmen want to do is sit in a room filled with other businessmen. A room full of money is a pretty boring sight - unless it's yours, of course. Graydon Carter Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled prete...

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to

Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete. Donald Trump If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play. Michelle Yeoh Not many people get to the major leagues and succeed right away. There are some struggles. Everyone seems to struggle. George Brett Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D! Shigeru Miyamoto Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution. Jay Inslee Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain. Fawn M. Brodie ...

Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need,

to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility. Yehuda Berg I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it. Paul Weller I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways. Joaquin Phoenix I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say. Lyle Lovett Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't. Jeff Bridges I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books. Rainn Wilson I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped ...

We all have a natural instinct to protect children from harm. It's never fun to

see a child hurt, even if it's just a scraped knee. But on the other hand, children need to take on physical challenges to learn and grow, and scraped knees and other bumps and bruises teach them valuable lessons about their own limits. Darell Hammond A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world. Robert Smithson The real Mary Poppins got lost when Hollywood turned her into a cream puff. Anita Diament The destiny of man is in his own soul. Herodotus Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. Yevgeny Yevtushenko There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. Vint Cerf I believe that a politician needs to be with people. Rahul Gandhi If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. ...

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next

door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. Chinua Achebe My parents never really lecture me. Georgia Jagger You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass. Frank Sinatra If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate. Eli Broad Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that. Ayrton Senna In our heads we're all about 33 years old. Douglas Coupland Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience. Noah Wyle I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series. Julian Fellowes If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than a...

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the

territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth. Lysander Spooner I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old. Jet Li I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic. Kunal Nayyar When I'm in the U.K. I can't resist Maltesers and Twiglets - the evil combination. Luckily, I live in the U.S. so can't get them easily, which is probably a good thing. Jane Seymour I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul. Anne Rice In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. Karl Liebknecht I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there's a sucke...

I really am opinionated, but not for long. I have found myself coming off of

what I think of something because the guy I'm talking to makes better sense than I am. I have so many points of view, I can't keep track of 'em, because I talk to too many people... I'm not so opinionated that I won't budge. Jerry Lewis I realized that in those nine seasons I started out at about 225 pounds and I felt, you know, full figured fabulous woman but in those seasons I gained 75 pounds up to over 300 pounds all in front of the nation. Star Jones I make movies for money, exclusively for money. Klaus Kinski The only greatness for man is immortality. James Dean The choice is not between conducting the stem cell research or not conducting it. That is not the choice. Roger Wicker It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs. Hank Azaria I write to escape; to escape poverty. Edgar Rice Burroughs You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually. Henry Winkler The human voice...

When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could

but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview. Viggo Mortensen I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook. Traci Bingham Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children. Jonathan Haidt In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy. Recep Tayyip Erdogan I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity. Eva Mendes So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake. Hugh Dancy At its core, banking is n...

Standards are a little crazy these days. I think that, when you go to sleep,

as long as you're happy with the way you are and the way you look, that's the most important thing. I think it's an internal thing. As long as you feel good with who you are and comfortable with what you're wearing, but not if that's the most important thing. Ashlee Simpson Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them. M. F. Husain If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. Ezra Pound The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal. John Sexton Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. Lionel Hampton Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. Darren Aronofsky Me and my partner, Co...

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other

end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive. Theresa May I would love to go back to Broadway. Katie Finneran Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity. Salvatore J. Cordileone In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body. Venus Williams As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. Tony Kushner The women of Afghanistan have a voice, and it needs to be heard and not forgotten. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him. Moby Scientific ...

If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a

future in which people are once again fascinated by your product - it's time to realize that the game has changed. Instead of investing in a dying product, take profits and reinvest them in building something new. Seth Godin You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing. John Sayles I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges. Lord Robertson I never go anywhere without my iPod. Robert Carlyle First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst. Dale Carnegie In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal. Gertrude Stein I can write for a lon...

'The Sopranos,' for instance, is arguably the best cable show of all time. They could

have made a movie, but that show ended so perfectly, it would almost be a disadvantage to make a movie like that. Then again, if you made a 'Sopranos' movie, people would be lined around the block to go see it. Jerry Ferrara I've learnt to take care of myself. Heather Graham When the day's work is over, it's over. John Turturro So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. Neville Marriner Whoever best serves the song is going to be served by the song. Michael Bolton The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually. David F. Houston I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself. Sandy Adams Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point. Karl Lehmann I think generally playing live is a c...

One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel

thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. Sean Hannity The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them. Sid Waddell Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know. Bruce Jackson I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk. Laura Innes I've gone out of my way to not take baggage with me from film to film. Jeff Bridges Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. Henri Bergson I don't know where actors go after they...

Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the

Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite. Anne Enright In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'. Carlos Ruiz Zafon Elephants and grandchildren never forget. Andy Rooney Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. Chanakya The highest revelation is that God is in every man. Ralph Waldo Emerson Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences. Robert Anton Wilson The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from o...

I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how

lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful. Jeffrey Dean Morgan I'm not a good guitar player. Adam Jones I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform. Victor Garber I don't wear heels. Jourdan Dunn I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that. Phil Donahue I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be. Jason Schwartzman Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now. Ernie Pyle The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss. Max Stirner The key to social engineering is influencing a ...

Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home

in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke. Mstislav Rostropovich I'm not sure if I could bear to go on an aeroplane again. It's not my concern for the welfare of the planet. It's not even the long check-in times and queuing. No, it's the humiliation of the security process that has finally done it for me. Tom Hodgkinson I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname. Jack Kent Cooke I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written. Amy Ray A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. Garrett Hardin Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to...

So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is

simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward way is to search for a second form of life on Earth. No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if the path to life is easy, then life should have started up many times over right here. Paul Davies I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters. Oona Chaplin I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. Thom Yorke A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature. Lucy Larcom People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay. Michael Patrick King Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in l...

'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a

transfer of wealth from the families of American writers to the executives and stockholders of various businesses who will continue to profit from, for example, 'The Garden Party,' while the descendants of Katherine Mansfield will not. Mark Helprin Be relentless and then you'll break through. Julie Brown I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful. Robert M. Gates I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue. Emma Bonino My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too. Jeffrey Kluger My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. Salvatore Quasimodo I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to. Gillian Anderson Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer. Charle...

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker.

These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics. Temple Grandin I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is. Julian Schnabel For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude. Joe Klein The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. Sarah Bernhardt We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress. Shigeru Yoshida The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation. Artie Lange And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me...

Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None

at all. The only pressures that I know I face are those of how to pay it forward: How can I continually make a positive impact in people's lives, help others achieve their dreams, create their own Olympic mindset, creating champions within themselves? Apolo Ohno Family is becoming more and more important to me. Diane Kruger I do a lot of ceramics. Jeff Bridges The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms. Brooke Shields You took care of your horse, and your horse took care of you. Elton Gallegly I have known Harold Ford Jr. since before he was born, in that his father was my driver in the 1966 governor's race, and has remained a friend of mine all these years. John Jay Hooker It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Thomas Sowell Art is eternal, but life is short. Evelyn de Morgan When I retire I'm gonna be...

As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and

say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world. Ali Smith The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. Christopher Hitchens Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation. Jane Goodall Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here. David Davis The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture. Steven T. Katz I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on. Brenda Lee I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit. Robert Kirkman I'm not going around touring the U.S. whe...

Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would

provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans, and break down bureaucratic barriers preventing them from finding work. It's smart legislation that members of both parties support, and I'm pleased the Senate passed it. Joe Heck Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively. Deepak Chopra No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me. Roger Daltrey When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on? Hermann Maier Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room. Patricia Heaton Religion is not a conclusion of the reason. Lyman Abbott I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. Irvine Welsh The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a ...

I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent

urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me. Joe Greene I have to remember that for the most part people will see me for what I do, not what I say I do. Jemima Kirke To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy. Julius Wellhausen 'Intelligent Design,' the relabeled, repackaged form of American creationism, has always had a problem. It just can't seem to produce any evidence. Kenneth R. Miller People want opportunity so they can earn security. Jack Kemp I was unemployable when I got out of college. Jeffrey Eugenides It's not the average people that come to my show. Young Jeezy As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them. Donald No...

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that

everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do. Vikram Seth What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world. Hillary Clinton Look at Mexico. We need to make that government better and end the corruption. If people have a better life in their country, they won't come over here. Tony Garza And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry. Ruben Studdard To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem. Mary Barnett Gilson A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last. Jeff Bezos Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary. Emanuel Ax The line between good and ...

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five

thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. John Cornyn I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places. Robin Day I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up. Brittany Snow I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. Sophocles Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government. Tim Murphy Well first of all, it's hard to shoot a movie and break for a long time and then come back and do, in a sense, one of the biggest scenes that each character had. Dustin Hoffman Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time. Rick Pe...

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks

she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before. Vidal Sassoon They hate whom they fear. Quintus Ennius Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best. Juliette Gordon Low When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record. Agnetha Faltskog There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make. Robert Mueller I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts. Bobby Fischer I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems. Josh Radnor I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. Edward Hopper Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. Christian Lous Lange

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in

bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me. George Osborne The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work. Michael Connelly There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too. Mike McCready I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal. Ryan Giggs I just don't see very many films. Because I make them. Kristin Scott Thomas At least I can say that I'm honest. Adam Lambert What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible. Robert Herjavec I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can...

When you have a chef that wants to be in the spotlight, maybe after one

or two appearances on a show, they think they're at a certain level that they haven't reached yet in the kitchen. Shows like 'Top Chef', 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world. Geoffrey Zakarian I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis. Paul von Hindenburg I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes. Janelle Monae In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. Raoul Vaneigem I don't feel very revengeful in life at all. Andrea Arnold God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity. Billy Sunday I think it's ...

I know that some filmmakers strive for a kind of naturalistic approach, but

you're never going to capture something that's really natural - just the simple fact that you choose to put a frame around something means that you've already chosen one particular thing to put more attention on. Jarvis Cocker What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. George Eliot I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. Steven Spielberg I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible. Steve Coogan I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature. Whitley Strieber I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken. Santigold I love that pre-mod jazz look of the...

They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children or

with a group of children because you see the kids in front of you from time to time reaching up. You see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. I think it's remarkable and it does obviously, literally, add another dimension to the movie. Steve Carell I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right. Adam Lambert It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era. Nobuo Uematsu I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.' Kevin McCloud My talents do not lie in DIY. Morrissey I get the impression the English kings were witty, for some reason. I feel like all you had was your wit. Colin Quinn We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure...

At XL, we tackle risk like no one else, analyzing deeper and listening closely to

our clients to create solutions that unleash the world's capacity to advance. By helping our clients unlock their full potential, we fulfill our own. Our new brand demonstrates this unique outlook and the commitment and value we bring to clients. Mike McGavick Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is. Marcy Kaptur I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us. Bill Kurtis A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road. Charles C. Mann Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work. Marina Abramovic Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing...

CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do

is special effects. But using stop-motion comes from our desire to do handmade stuff. There are always going to be kids who get out whatever it might be - clay, bits of wire, Barbie dolls, Legos. They want to tell little stories. Henry Selick I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here. Jules Shear I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do. Jerry Orbach The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family. Glenn Tipton I just want to be a good friend to people, that's all. Kirsten Dunst I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible. Rachael Leigh Cook One is forever throwing away substance for shadows. Lady Randolph Churchill To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible. Jerry Buss We have one life and we should c...

It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents

always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection. Novak Djokovic I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built. Guy Laliberte People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me. LaToya Jackson I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics. Tim Allen There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star. Tina Turner Also watching a movie on DVD is different than watching it in the theater. Ivan Reitman Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad. Max Cannon Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawye...

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went

out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family. Jason Aldean It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places. Jeff Ament Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world. Aung San Suu Kyi Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds. Bob Hayes National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. Theresa May I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough. Jennifer Weiner I love having a man in my life, ...

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of

another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? Steve Jobs It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong. Sophocles Filmmakers who use narrators pay a price for taking the easy way: narrated films date far more quickly than films without narrators. Bruce Jackson My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around. Boz Scaggs Love is the one wild card. Taylor Swift If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. Anna Quindlen You need an incredible amount of self-confidence to go digging around in someone's brain. Ben Carson Well, c'mon, everyone is a Facebook addict! Carlos Pena, Jr. One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with th...

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will

permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords. Franjo Tudjman If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. Andre Breton I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way. Ewan McGregor Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer. Tom Clancy Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right. Peter Shaffer But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. Martin Heidegger Being fit will keep you mentally sharp and people forget that. Peter Shilton I don't want anyone s...

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity

helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well. Naveen Jain Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next. Jon Favreau I am not sorry for my crime. Leon Czolgosz I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff. Jon Hamm Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. Eric Idle I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair. Loretta Lynn I'm not trying to do anything too tricky. Nate Silver Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life. James Cromw...

There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all

evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture. Nina Fedoroff Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary. Madeleine M. Kunin When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with. Marion Cotillard Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again. Siobhan Fahey I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career. Nolan Ryan I'm still Elliott Yamin. I'm still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va. Elliott Yamin One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry. Steven Spielberg Peo...

My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I

never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity. Sara Zarr I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable. Dana Torres Every day is new. It's just a new day. I look at six hours at a time. Wiz Khalifa To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best. Eric Idle I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture. Rod Taylor I like to sing with people, whether they're good or not. John Stamos It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them. Ellen G. White A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. Max Lerner I have no influence...

I have quite a bit of experience reporting on corporate behavior, both doing it with

independent operations in early in my career, in the underground press, to magazines like 'Rolling Stone,' to regional newspapers and television, and television news programs, to papers like the 'New York Times' and public television. Lowell Bergman Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses. Evgeny Morozov Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well. Matthew Lesko I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor. Nina Bawden I feel very fortunate. I feel like an Olympian. When I watch the Olympics, I cry because I have been through that journey. Danielle de Niese It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there. Idris Elba The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn. Jacqueline Bisset I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or ...

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