a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner. Tatiana Maslany I don't speak particularly well. That's one of the consequences of being extremely ugly. Chris Martin Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done. Robert M. Gates Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian. David Steinberg I want to be a skater. Lil Wayne How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.' Eleanor Mondale Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. John Barton There are bound to be differences in any artistic co...

do and you like fashion, I think it's a great way of getting into the business because you do windows, cleaning, and everything. That was my school for two years, working in a shop, and that's how I met people in magazines and designers. Nicola Formichetti Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler. Margaret Heffernan Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. Edna Ferber One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart. Brit Marling As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. Victor Hugo There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from abov...

culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing. You're like, 'I don't want to ride in a car with this person. I want to be independent and ride by myself. But, let's ride in a group. Let's be independent, together.' Ryan Hurst Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor. Bobby Flay Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. Anna Sui It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school. Sally Ride Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition. Olivia Wilde I want a language that speaks the truth. Studs Terkel I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that. Gillian...

putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece. James Surowiecki I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans. Hugh Howey I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. Khaled Hosseini I'm a real actress. Paz de la Huerta I would always want printed books. J. K. Rowling I was never a dangerous woman. I'm not the prissy blonde woman that could take your husband away. Catherine Deneuve I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record. Mika Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars. Joe Eszterhas As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there i...

people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of our past, as a country, as a Church, or as an individual is never easy. Our struggle to heal the wounds of decades of violence, injury and painful memory in Northern Ireland are more than ample evidence of this. Sean Brady Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. Sam Levenson My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school. James Blunt I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was. Olivia Thirlby Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits. LL Cool J I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old. Jake Bugg I guess we're all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone...

to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates? Gary Bauer Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face. Tavi Gevinson I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did. A. Scott Berg People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself. Adam Levine That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky. George Best Every day you use dozens of products that have strong chemicals in them, but remember, the only difference between poison and medicine is dosage. Aubrey McClendon I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo. Carly Simon Just a ton of excitement, and the way the guys are together on this, they're looking at me to grow and t...

but thing was it was a band that couldn't live up to its name so I soldiered on. On one level, it was devastating for a while. On another level, maybe I should thank them for helping me make my own way in my own career. Eric Burdon The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate. Daisaku Ikeda When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own. Marc Webb Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed. Nick Denton Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun. Katy Perry When I first came to this country, I didn't know how to speak English. Wilmer Valderrama So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one. Graeme Le Saux Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanatio...

judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that. Alison Sweeney A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself. Rufus Sewell I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't. Jo Brand Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball. Phil Simms My workout regimen at the moment is nonexistent. I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth. My toothbrush and deodorant are my only dumbbells. That's about it. Josh Bowman As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax. Christine Lagarde Led Zeppel...

leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth. Roger Ebert Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. Henry James I've always had stamina. It's a genetic thing. Don't forget, I'm from the era where we played outside, so there was no issue with weight because we were out running around the fields and playing hide and seek. Tracie Bennett I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain. Calvin Klein I don't need any more awards. Davy Jones I've got a farm in England where I breed horses. Davy Jones The competition in today's world of racing is so tough. Jimmie Johnson I'm not that careful with c...

has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it. Ben Carson I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting. Kerry Healey There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past. Tom Wilson Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. Irwin Shaw Vin Diesel is the best kisser in the world, better than anyone else I've ever had. The most attractive thing about Vin is his brain. That's his most attractive muscle. Asia Argento It should be known that Israel is based on treachery. Bashar al-Assad 'RoboCop' was maybe the best summer of my entire life. Miguel Ferrer I wish I sang better. Warren Zevon I'm not trying to be Mr...

could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity. Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Why should you have to atone for making big movies? Emily Blunt Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?' Sam Kinison I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. LeBron James For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going. Brie Larson Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that. Hal David I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it w...

there are more things we could've done with the character. If we'd done a sequel to 'The Thomas Crown Affair,' what would that have been like? But for the most part, you try not to think of that, because it's just going to break your heart. Denis Leary You can't jump to vegan if you're not. Some people are absolute. Some people are able to be gradual. Russell Simmons Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education. Angela Davis And some places you been before are so great that you don't ever mind going back. Some places you been before you don't ever want to go back, you know, like Montreal in the Winter. Morgan Freeman You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know. Joe Mantegna I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has ...

giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to hide an ungracious parking garage at Santa Monica Place, is resurrected for Eisenhower to screen the equally graceless facade of the Department of Education. Leon Krier I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work. Hugh Jackman Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. Steve Buscemi To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction. Hans Hofmann I love the Olympics. Something about the Olympics just makes everything competitive. Bryan Greenberg I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American. John Cusack One little secret of the guys who have won one slam, is that we don't want other guys to win one ...

adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn't apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn't work. Trevor Phillips I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break. Emily Giffin Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody. Abdullah II of Jordan I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music. Leif Garrett I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much. Adam Carolla Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter. Charles Kuralt I have a temper on me that could hold back tides. Shirley Manson I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed t...

class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute. Vanessa Hudgens We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer. Mike Conaway A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home. Ross Kemp I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really. Andy Grove I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny. Michelle Pfeiffer I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!' Laura Linney The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that. Boris Spassky Deep, unspeak...

was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.' Miles Teller I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger. Eric Schlosser Mitt Romney is a nice guy. But, we know where nice guys finish in politics. Mark McKinnon I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man. Ned Beatty To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas. Lawrence M. Krauss I lost my ability to will things to happen. Tiger Woods I understand how hard rock fans feel inside out, because I was one of those people. Charlie Simpson ...

will not go in vain. And I would like to affirm, I will not hesitate to punish those who are responsible fiercely. I will hold those in charge who have violated the rights of our youth with the harshest punishment stipulated in the law. Hosni Mubarak People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through. Omar Sy What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person. Christopher Parker Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing. Kevin Systrom Film-making was not at all what I had expected. Brigitte Bardot I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend ...

make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life. Dave Chappelle Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work. Robert Caro And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more. Luke Evans When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them. Judith Miller You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. Jeff Bridges I love going to tag sales, to auctions. Lara Spencer I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington. Kay Bailey Hutchison I don't know about you, but I can...

extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth. Jeremy Grantham You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do. Diane Kruger I don't have a saviour or a royal family. John Malkovich Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll. Ted Nugent I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood. Seth MacFarlane Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. Hale White We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough. Al...

and I'm big on hugging, because I'm from the Midwest. They're just so energetic and loving. I'm proud to have those fans, and their support means a lot to me. I don't want just girls coming to my movies; I want guys to come, too! Kellan Lutz Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements. Theodor Herzl It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war. Robert Walpole Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it. Kato Kaelin You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case. Kate ...

would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. Stephen LaBerge I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea. William Peter Blatty For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all. Jody Williams I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive. Adam Ant I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist. David Lindsay-Abaire I have the mouth of a sailor. Kristen Bell I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place. Jewel I'm try...

of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. Gary Hamel I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves. Amy Poehler The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing. Frank Shorter You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time. Matthew Sweet I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals. Aby Rosen I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces. Melissa Auf de...

stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps. Priyanka Chopra My parents separated when I was younger. Tina Turner Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope. Mike Huckabee The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. Warren Bennis I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked. Mo Rocca So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it, that the Devil would have a representation as well as God. Warren Jeffs I am sorry for what has happened and I know that I need some help. Susan Smith Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun. Andrew Niccol Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight. Michael J...

But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants. Candice Millard When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. J. K. Rowling There's no such thing as being too Southern. Lewis Grizzard Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. Eva Zeisel Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. Roger Ascham Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. Thomas R. Cech I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want t...

one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful. Sam Harris I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. Mikhail Bakunin In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me. Caroline Kennedy If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death. Alexander Smith Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system. Victoria Wood All Newfoundlander men can knit. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee I don't atta...

from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. Christopher Hitchens My background is in improv and writing. Paul Scheer When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor. Austin O'Malley I want a body of work; I want a good story after a good story. Giancarlo Esposito The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit. John Buchanan Robinson It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. Marquis de Sade You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky. Roelof Botha To shipbrokers, coal was black gold. Roald Dahl President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers. Austin Ligon You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But i...

compromise did not achieve the kind of super-sized deficit reduction that we sought, it did end the uncertainty around the perception, the possibility that the United States might default on its obligations for its first time. That was a good thing. Jay Carney I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am. Mariah Carey If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not. Tim Tebow I want Bolivians to support their president. Carlos Mesa They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news. Joel Siegel I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered. Dennis Rodman I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education. Jeb Bush Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car. Sophie Ellis-Bextor As ...

the gym and your goal is, 'I want to look just like David Beckham,' then that drives you to do certain things. You may never look like Beckham, but it is a goal. Cities need the same thing. They need a vision and a plan for their ideal physique. Mitchell Joachim iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up. Trent Reznor There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know. Cathy Rigby If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female. Jane Smiley The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over. Gordon Ramsay The thing about ...

critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.' Anna Gunn Copiers do not collaborate. Antoni Gaudi But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again. John Breaux It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness. Nevil Shute No one ever takes my side. Chris Noth Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself. Thomas Aquinas You will see the President being very, very tough on spending. Donald Evans I'm going to be done when I've decided that I'm done. David Ortiz Did I feel naked being naked? Yeah. Totally. Jennifer Lawrence I hate to blow my o...

years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written. Edward Ruscha This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here. Kevin Kelly Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. George A. Smith Many of us believe that we need health care reform. That being said - Americans felt like they weren't being listened to. There were a lot of people across the political spectrum who said we don't want a one-size-fits-all healthcare plan. Timothy Griffin It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. Desmond Tutu Like at home, I don...

could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. Alexandra Fuller I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I'm not really a meat and potatoes guy. Anthony Bourdain I'm feeling a little delicate. Aung San Suu Kyi You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person. Randy Jackson To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird. Chester Bennington I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration. Chris O'Dowd We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for ...

that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive. Stephen Fry People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience. Helen Mirren I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950. Howard Finster I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was. George Michael True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time. Burt Ward As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha. Bodhidharma I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans. Cameron Diaz Take...

the morning. Some people don't need sleep. I actually do need sleep. I just sleep all the time. I'll catch naps in the afternoon, or I'll take a 20-minute snooze in the office - just all the time. Our business is 24 hours. Our guys in Europe come online at midnight. Matt Mullenweg When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry. Gabriel Iglesias My sister is a masseuse, so we trade - she gives me massages and I give her prepared meals. It's a great system I'd recommend: Cook or babysit for a friend in exchange for one of her skills. Giada De Laurentiis Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm. Mary MacLane It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother. ...

can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much. Dianna Agron Everyone thinks something like 'The Hills' just falls into your lap. It's not true. You have to work for everything. Brody Jenner One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming. Haldan Keffer Hartline When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song. Willie Nelson I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen. James Van Der Beek At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see. Richard Dawkins It takes me a long time to make a big purchase. Jessica Chastain I lo...

mix tapes and I'm all about small little things. I'll drop by their door and just leave a gift or come over if they're sick and make them chicken noodle soup and rent a DVD and play board games. I think those little things mean a lot to someone. Aly Michalka The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better. Vanessa Paradis People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up. Danny Aiello I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now... being a bit wilder maybe! Liam Payne Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. Paul Valery I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not t...

so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked. Denis O'Hare I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun. Barbara Corcoran Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films. Catherine Deneuve I think to compare any time you win a Stanley Cup would be unfair to all the players from all the teams. Mark Messier When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work. Richard Donner I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment. Marion Jones I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's...

ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly. Dylan Moran I like barbecuing because it's easy. Norah Jones In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with. Joaquin Phoenix Every winning streak will have to end sometime. Jahangir Khan We pardon to the extent that we love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. Joan Didion To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world. Eduard Shevardnadze After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times. Sandra Bullock I really take acting seriously. John Corbett I have an ulcer. It ha...

stop growing, your world will begin to shrink. You'll be able to communicate with fewer people, especially the young. You will only see reruns. You will not understand how to pay for things. The outside world will become a frightening and unpredictable place. Daniel H. Wilson In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin. Thorsten Heins I have this to say to the people: go the polls and vote for the candidate of your choice... This is your responsibility; do not neglect it. Hosni Mubarak The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. Christopher Lasch The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated. Aldrich Ames If all else fails, birdie the last. Adam Derek Scott Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary. Jim Carrey I trained as a stage actor an...

of the car, or, like me, you fix it on visual speed. If you do it through the grip, you lose it very quickly - because when the track changes, you can have scares. I do it visually, so if I am going too fast I fight to get the car back, but I do not do it by feeling the grip. Jean Alesi Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting. Ralph Chaplin I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one. John Kendrick Bangs The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power. Bob Barr I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it. Tory Burch I've always been my own hitting coach. David Ortiz Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire. Bob Iger President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a wa...

- I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers. Daniel H. Pink Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will. Max Muller I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence. Lynn Margulis I have very curly hair and I straighten it every day - it takes maybe two minutes. I can't imagine anyone having a bigger challenge than I do in the kinkiness that is my crazy 'fro.' Ginnifer Goodwin I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. Andrew Motion I...

got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do. David Duchovny I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the horse I rode in on. James McBride I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room. Maria Sharapova I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond. Anthony Michael Hall I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. Allen Ginsberg As always, I appreciate all the love and supp...

of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information. Julian Assange I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together. Vanessa Carlton As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well. Masanobu Fukuoka I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me. Tony Judt I was so nervous to turn 40, but the last year and a half has been the most fun I have ever had. Giada De Laurentiis Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it. Gwen Stefani But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control. W...

primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family. Jim Edgar I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to. Guy Laliberte I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately. Lynn Johnston There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap. Billie Joe Armstrong There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today. Jan Chipchase I'm pretty proud ...

Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending. Neil Cavuto A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. Ruth Brown Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time. Gloria Estefan You are richer for doing things. Jessica Tandy I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners. John Hanning Speke George Burns was the father I never had. Bobby Darin A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. Samuel Butler I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all. Craig Venter I was a bit of a sleeper-inner. Rod Stewart Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove....

they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community. Rowan Williams If he hadn't done that interview with Bashir, he wouldn't be there now. That was the first time he ever did an interview like that. He was afraid of something like that all along. And it happened. Joseph Jackson I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios. Mayer Hawthorne I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents. William Hamilton I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately. Helen Dunmore Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down...

campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play. Danny Glover No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. John Stuart Mill I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of. Fritz Zwicky When I was 16, nobody else talked like me. Nobody else sounded like me. Linda Hunt Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. Francois de La Rochefoucauld I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody. T. D. Jakes Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out. Flip Wilson Governments can inflate their way out of debt,...

'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses. Gwyneth Paltrow I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop. Soulja Boy I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return. Pier Luigi Bersani It's probably healthier to find fame later in life. Bill Nighy When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard. Sidney Poitier In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. John Kenneth Galbraith I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom. Fareed Zakaria I saw hell. The hospital had divided and...

gave me a piece of paper: '10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He's a lawyer.' He didn't know what was going on. He didn't even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I'm dating their dad! Hoda Kotb I feel like I'm more of the underdog, which is kind of nice. Katie Hoff And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable. Erskine Bowles I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands. V. S. Naipaul I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works. Larry Niven It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador I measure in my palm and use my eyes to estimate amounts; a ta...

without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death. Geezer Butler I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to. Jackie Mason They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it - you accept it is part of your job - if you're famous and you want this life, you have got to accept this part of it as well. Charlotte Church If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse. Thomas Fuller My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative. Gordie Howe Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes,...

on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will. Nick Clegg If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have. Jeffrey Kluger I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like. Margaret Mead I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer. Carla Bruni Don't take too much advice. Ben Silbermann I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow. Greil Marcus I know something. America is not broken, Washington, D.C. is broken. Rick Perry ...

reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them. Ricky Schroder My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on. Jennifer Aniston I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy. Michelle Williams Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. Anne Sullivan We had an eyeball-to-eyeball agreement at a restaurant before I came back that, if I came back, he would never talk to me that way again or I was simply saying no. Andrea Mackris The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes a...

soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible. Ray Bradbury No, because I've never really changed my style that much. Carly Simon You're creating an intimacy that everybody feels, that it's their experience, not yours. I'll never introduce a song and say, now this song is about 'my' broken heart. Diana Krall It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it. Laini Taylor The audience has always been my best director. Eartha Kitt I never thought I would have any particular career in movies at all. Paul Giamatti Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career. Sally Kellerman Culture is how biology responds and makes its livin...

that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins. Edgar Meyer Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex. Hari Kunzru I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future. Alan Dundes In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country. Rick Renzi Evil changes everybody! Vincent D'Onofrio My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there. Terrell Davis I think the best place to work in football is Englan...

I wrote a sequel. And they paid me a boatload of money to go write this thing. And after I wrote it, I read it and I gave them back the money and I said, 'Look, this is an okay movie I just wrote. But it's not worthy of the sequel to 'Independence Day.' Dean Devlin The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money. Margaret Thatcher I'd rather be in a tent than in a house. Mary Leakey I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down. Jim Jarmusch I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit. Jeremy Sisto I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. Sarojini Naidu My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person. Julian Lennon I do a ...

I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I'm like, 'Oh my goodness gracious - that's so insane.' I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool. Jordin Sparks The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power. Andrew Jackson I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker. Thomas Watson, Jr. In all animation, if it's done quickly, you'll know it. And if you're very slow and careful with it, it's going to look a little more beautiful. It's just compressing time into seconds. Henry Selick I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it. Nicole Kidman People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do. Lawrence Taylor I have very little patience...

or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante. Rufus Wainwright Life is all about having a good time. Miley Cyrus It's always fun when you're doing the CGI stuff, to actually get to work with someone who is real, who's there. Breckin Meyer My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa. Paul Anka A woman is subject matter enough. Claude Chabrol As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like. Frank Miller If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people. Nigel Farage I loved Lucille Ball growing up. Graham Norton Complexity is one of the great problems in env...

dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons. James Surowiecki Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance. Ralph G. Neas I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me. Tom Jenkinson I am a smiling depressive. Trisha Goddard I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.' Eric Stoltz A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. Catherine Helen Spence Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. Elias Canetti I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity. Jim Broadbent I'd like an ome...

some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. Jeffrey Eugenides Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material. Melita Norwood I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing. Alan Ritchson There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy. Vivienne Westwood The United States does not view our authority to use military force against Al Qaeda as being restricted solely to 'hot' battlefields like Afghanistan. John O. Brennan While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing ...

are echelons of football, as in society, where some players are clearly mercenaries. I regret in a way that somehow the local identification, the local bonding between the community and its football team has been commercialised to such an extent. Vincent Nichols I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that. Stephen Colbert Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing. Anne Carson But if you think you aren't creative that's cool, too. I think being around people who aren't creative is kind of refreshing and nice. Joel Hodgson We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government. Rand Paul Jesse James's next tat...

age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic. Jeffrey Kluger I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be. Jackie Joyner-Kersee I'd like to see the Second Coming in every one of us. That we all be Jesus. That we all embody that consciousness. Jane Siberry If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself. Jack Abramoff Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it. Upamanyu Chatterjee I am blessed beyond belief. Hunter Hayes So actually war is politically profitable, financially profitable, morally depraved. Dennis Kucinich Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGover...

took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it. Laurieann Gibson I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me. Jermain Defoe I started my career without fans. Christian Bale We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins. Tupac Shakur Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person. Charles Barkley It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense. Rita Coolidge I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms. Lisa Whelchel Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. Oprah Winfrey From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food. Helena Christensen I think I play ce...

first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially. Narada Michael Walden My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. Scott McCloud And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you. Elton John I have mainly come from a theatre background, I did 'Oliver' here I played the Artful Dodger and I did 'The Sound of Music.' Ben Nicholas Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. Dave Mustaine I like the energy of live performance. Sandra Bernhard Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! Robert Burns One o...

If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can get a huge amount done by 11 and have the rest of the day off if you want to, though I have to check my accumulating e-mails. No one ever sends me horrible e-mails. Although some of my books are supposed to be hated, no one ever tells me. Melvin Burgess If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was? Adam Carolla I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra. Ken Curtis I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home. Moshe Dayan My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day. Gene Simmons When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined. Leslie Caron Some colors reconcile themselves to one ano...

frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place. Josephine Baker I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin. Tim Scott Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. Allen Klein For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems. Marie Windsor I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends. Bob Saget I'm not that girl from Freaky Friday any more! I'm a real adult. In fact, I hate children! I hate them all! Lindsay Lohan I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can'...

do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second. John Lasseter From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness. Mark Haddon Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011. Mark Zandi There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else. Patrick Warburton Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. Paul Wellstone Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled. Harry Emerson Fosdick When you're...

forget each other's names because they always said each other's names - a lot. So if Jane didn't see the dog, Dick would say, 'Look Jane, look. There is the dog next to Sally, Jane. The dog is also next to mother, Jane. The dog is next to father, Jane.' Jon Scieszka I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible. Angie Martinez Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America. Mark Kennedy I played Mary Joe Fernandez in the semifinals. She was winning the first set. Second set was very close. I started to play this aggressive game. I think I surprised them. Gabriela Sabatini I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising. Tia Mowry A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's g...

won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it? James Badge Dale The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. Wilson Mizner I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.' David Cassidy If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family. Olafur Eliasson It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair. Zalmay ...

of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music. Michael Rapaport Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures. Ben Goldacre The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future. Heather Brooke My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother. Jessica Simpson We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world. Pat Robertson No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected. Nouriel Roubini You know, we have three branches of governmen...

childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us. Ashton Shepherd There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. Walter Salles To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it. James McGreevey Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. Oriana Fallaci I don't like to be away from my family for long periods. Richard Karn I think men are a beautiful creation. Krista Allen When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is...

is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run. Vince Cable My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had. Jamie Oliver Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great. Paul Reiser I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that. Matthew Fox I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there. Tommy Shaw Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it s...