a profoundly alienating experience when it first happens, where you go on TV and you say something about some topic of the day, and on the Internet people are like, 'What was up with that shirt?' 'What was up with your hair?' And you think, 'Oh, that's kind of a bummer.' Chris Hayes Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. Smedley Butler I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. Josephine de La Baume Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that te...

view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple. Herman Cain When you have a performer as talented as Bill Murray or as Harold, that can write as well as they can perform, you can do a final draft on the set if you think of it that way. Ivan Reitman I love actors, number one. There's probably nobody that you could name that I don't like, depending on what it is they're in. Mark Hamill I'm not a great one for looking back. Ian Botham If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York? Howard E. Koch The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are. Goldie Hawn First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is. Lee Myung-bak I was held ...

It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec. Richard Pound I always saw two sides of life. I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but would also be dedicated fathers. It was kind of weird to see that dual story that everybody has. Lupe Fiasco Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper? Frank Pittman I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving. Joseph Barbera I don't kiss on the first date. My friends always make fun of me for that! But I will hold hands. Lauren Conrad People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer th...

T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures. Francis Collins Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann. Manny Farber I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet. Rachael Ray The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her duty. For her country, she's selfless to the grave. Sarah Ferguson I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of...

was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film. Russell Baker I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star. Marina and the Diamonds There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them. Eli Roth They had asked for me because they wanted a younger girl, but Mum asked if she could bring Kylie along because she didn't want there to be any jealously. Dannii Minogue So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Dave Matthews If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. R...

Damien Hirst and Matthew Barney. I grew up in Italy and had a humanistic education in philosophy and literature - things I love and appreciate. People are richer and more complex than just their day-to-day professional pursuits might suggest. Nouriel Roubini For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. Thomas Bulfinch Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities. Anthony Hopkins I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare. Kate Moss The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time. Marilyn vos Savant It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn...

great to play this cool kid role. My episode is called 'The Intruders' and my character is this mean, angry teenager because her younger brother was just born and he gets all of the attention. She's always playing tricks on her family, and there are some cool twists. Willow Shields The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being. William Hurt I had sadness for breakfast. Andy Milonakis Traffic terrifies me. Moby Of course I am frustrated with regard to extreme poverty, to violence that never seems to cease. Roger Moore My first album is playful. Mary J. Blige To be honest, I can't wait to be a dad. I really hope that that's how the cookie crumbles for me. Lucas Neff When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and ...

you're about to be busy for four or six months or you're about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you've said 'no' to many things 'cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens. Mike Mills I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas. Louis Sachar For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. E. M. Forster I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders. Natalie Coughlin For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done. Judd Apatow Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith. Eric Hoffer I'm getting a lot of uninteresting romantic lead guys that look good and fall in love sort of garbage. Bobby Cannavale The Coal...

gets Kristen Bell, it's like, 'Well, of course he did.' With me, it should be, 'Oh good, a normal-looking guy got her. Maybe I'll get me a Kristen Bell.' But guys hate my guts for always dating women I have no right to be with. Dax Shepard Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated. Margaret Wertheim Unfortunately, unless we're focused on building up our courage, which gives us our self-confidence and all that we need to make quantum change in our lives, the voice of fear will always take the lead inside our minds. Debbie Ford I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. Tori Amos I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening. Kitty Carlisle There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see w...

it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event. Rem Koolhaas Every day I am inspired by what's possible. Maynard Webb There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Laura Benanti When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly. Lisa Rinna We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries. Jay Inslee Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to ch...

a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. Brian Eno How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? Jacques Plante I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be. Trent Reznor I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me. Curtis Jackson Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while. Meg Cabot Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistanc...

classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music. Reggie Watts As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses. Henry Paulson There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. John Buchan I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. J. C. Watts I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world. Ryan Reynolds You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money. Billy Joel I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it. Jackie DeShannon I constantly remind people that crime isn...

all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again. Nickolas Ashford The only meal I have is dinner. Elizabeth Hurley I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good. Jerry Saltz 'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit. Betty White It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it. Hannah Cowley You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space. Erwin McManus Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation. Natalia Vodianova You need more peo...

and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society. Sebastian Junger I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion. Joe Arpaio Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. Woodrow Wilson My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet. Emilia Clarke I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out. Mary Chapin Carpenter My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far. Miranda Ri...

just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way. Eddie Vedder There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons. David Gill I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word. Tommy Lee Jones The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously. Drew Barrymore Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities. George W. Romney The actual danger is nothing, and the...

am, and this responsibility came with the success that I had in last couple of years, not just myself but the whole group of tennis players that comes from Serbia. And athletes in general are, in this moment, the biggest ambassadors that our country has. Novak Djokovic I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight. Len Goodman I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example. Geri Halliwell Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks. Al Franken The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. Audrey Hepburn To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed. Kat...

and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' Ani DiFranco Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? Jean-Jacques Rousseau It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth. Ellen Barkin I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Because nobody knows you. Anna Nicole Smith I can't even open my eyes underwater. Jessica Chastain I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?' ...

feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor. Nigel Cole Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance. Muqtada al Sadr I don't take a lot of notice of odds. Peter Shilton Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now. John Zorn The idea of being on TV 24 hours a day and people seeing the real me... No. Johnny Vegas I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day. Clemence Poesy Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum. Robert T. Bakker I l...

they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities. Agnieszka Radwanska Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child. Mayim Bialik The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism. David Icke All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well. Claire McCaskill You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong. Murray Walker It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater. Cathy Rigby There's nobody in the world...

are equally bad, would throw out the party that is in, and wait till the next election and then throw out the other party that is in - then, I say, the commercial politician would feel a demand for good government and he would supply it. Lincoln Steffens I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating. Barbara Ehrenreich I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs. James Herriot Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. Mason Cooley Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right? Justin Bieber I ...

to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it. Adam Pally Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints. Bobby McFerrin I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. Agnes Smedley Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad. William Shatner The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes. Richard Baker Comedy is great; yo...

is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. Peer Steinbruck We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments. Henry Campbell-Bannerman When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder. Nassim Nicholas Taleb Juggling work and parental responsibilities is no easy task, but I'm trying my best and just like everything else there are good days and there are bad days. Ali Landry I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world. Jordana B...

spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. Damian Marley I really like Gwyneth Paltrow a lot, as far as her career, because I think she's done a lot of small movies but she's also done great, big movies, and she's a really great actress. Emma Roberts There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. Cullen Hightower I think when your image becomes so big that it's hard for a viewer to see a character, then I think you're in danger as an actor of being unable to perform what you should be doing. Hugo Weaving Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong. John Dryden There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You...

It's not bringing in the type of money that I am used to or the type of money that is going to supply my lifestyle. I'm a leisure girl; I like to be over in Italy or in Europe, you know shopping or vacationing, you know. LisaRaye McCoy-Misick We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, every bit of money - someone says Stanley Ho, you issue me a check of so much money - we don't give that easy. Stanley Ho Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great. Peter Forsberg Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals. Harold Prince Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, rig...

act in accordance with the reality of the world we live in. In a mutually dependant, intimately connected global community facing several major crises, brands need to operate with an expanded definition of self-interest that includes the greater good. Simon Mainwaring In an era of billion-person countries and trillion-pound economies, we need to find ways to amplify our voice. We are most likely to be heard when the Chinese negotiate with a £10 trillion E.U., not a £1.5 trillion Britain. Douglas Alexander Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups. David Mitchell My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc. Thomas Kinkade Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days. Joanna Kerns I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human r...

freaking well knows me.' Because that's not the case. Once in a while, someone will remember some silly thing I did and then they feel good. And they go, 'Oh, hey, Michael Bolton, I celebrate your whole catalog.' And I'm like, 'Great, great, I totally get it.' John C. McGinley There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me. Tupac Shakur My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road. Christina Aguilera I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it. Yulia Tymoshenko Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes. Laurell K. Hamilton I'm much more prone to feeling down a lot. I just feel sluggish and unmotivated. Sean Astin Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public. Mel Ferrer If you can believe this, I didn't fight for my first world title fight till I had 58...

even from observing the first few hours of usage. Students used it like crazy. They'd sign up then spend the next 3-4 hours on it. Then we'd go to lecture hall and see it on every computer screen there. Dustin Moskovitz But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere. Garrett Hardin I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story. John Romero The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. Erich Fromm There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners. Robert Bourassa Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. Leon Krier And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything els...

sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism. Michael Stuhlbarg I'm not a snob about which looks are 'this season' and which are 'last season.' Nicky Hilton I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. Fran Lebowitz My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that. Channing Tatum I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound. Shirley Henderson But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster c...

companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.' Charles Leadbeater The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage. Jessica Savitch Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. Alfred A. Montapert My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate. Nina Garcia My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses. Alan Dundes I'm very comfortable in my skin. Celine Dion And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again. Phil Anselmo It...

relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control of the purse strings as a system of reward and punishment. It will also suffer if the lower earner takes a chippy, haughty attitude to spending money they haven't actually generated themselves. Marian Keyes I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was. Jennifer Lopez I will have to earn trust and respect from my kids. Tiger Woods The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!' Larry Cohen We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins. Saku Koivu I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something...

monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform. Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over. Aaron Tveit Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker. Ian Thorpe I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live. Miranda Lambert They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them. Kenneth Blackwell Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long. Sean Faris I'm pretty much a vegetarian. Robin Day I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'...

sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that. Ben Mezrich Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. Morarji Desai When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music. Moby I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. Charles Kuralt It's a terrible poison, writing. A. S. Byatt I am so rich that I must give myself away. Egon Schiele For all the boredom the straight life brings, it...

about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we had rationing. We couldn't buy meat, we couldn't buy pleasurable goods like cigarettes and sweets. I didn't starve - my family were lucky - but I knew what it was like standing in line waiting for foodstuffs. Eric Burdon I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it. Sam Waterston Invention is the mother of necessity. Thorstein Veblen I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian. Kevin A. Ford I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it. Billy Gibbons I have a Brazilian trainer here in New York and we do a Brazilian Butt Lift workout. Alessandra Ambrosio I've always believed that it's important to give ...

risking your life. So what's missing now is that primal emotion of being scared to death, and I think that's why people crave thrills like roller coasters or scary movies. They give you the chance to feel this very primal emotion in a very controlled environment. Oren Peli I lost interest in being in the public eye. Phoebe Snow We are telling our kids that nature is in the past and it probably doesn't count anymore, the future is in electronics, the boogeyman is in the woods, and playing outdoors is probably illicit and possibly illegal. Richard Louv I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view. Kevin Richardson I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good. Graham Hawkes There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things. Julie Bowen Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never ...

creative people want you, but the studio is saying no.' It's depressing, but I understand. People are investing a lot of money and they want somewhat of a guarantee; they want someone who's been on the cover of magazines. Melanie Lynskey The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Erich Fromm I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality. Bob Geldof It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away. Saad Hariri All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. Meryl Streep None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths. Joni Eareckson Tada Don't wait. If it's not right, move on. Andy Lau I'll tell you ...

like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks. Julian Assange I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation. R. Kelly Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. Todd Gitlin I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence. Marilynne Robinson I want to get people thinking. James De La Vega I've always felt happy at Newcastle. But things have gone a bit differently for me since we got a new manager. Robert Laurent To travel is to take a jour...

Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them. Peter York I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way. Brian De Palma This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win! Bobby Bonilla I don't work with a stylist. Taylor Momsen Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help. Lucy Maud Montgomery Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice. Jimmy Fallon When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible. Donna Summer I think that I have sold out sometimes. Ajay Naidu Guitars are kind of...

which is rejection, is that if I do the work, I go in, and I'm prepared and I audition and they don't hire me, I'm always just amazed, thinking, 'Wow! For that money, they could've had Bruce McGill, and they didn't take me? I just think that's amazing.' Bruce McGill Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. Elfriede Jelinek I like to get real pretty. Adam Lambert I support legal immigration. Heather Wilson Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it. Nat Wolff Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. Evan Esar Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down. Edmund Hillary I believe we're all in denial about the people we love. David Geffen A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him. Marvin Olasky Women ea...

we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it. Guy Finley I love singing just for my own benefit. Miranda Kerr I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions. Pete du Pont Killing is the payoff of war. Morley Safer I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually. Robert Mondavi No authority is higher than reality. Peter Nivio Zarlenga How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again. Jonah Lomu I ...

are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves. Ted Dekker Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are. Robert Caro People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. Max Eastman I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored. Adriana Lima I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. Seamus Heaney I'm an athletic junkie - I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I've become buddies with a bunch of athletes. Jes...

as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world, and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia, and I'm proud of them. Kevin Rudd What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful. Tony Hale I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come. Jose Mourinho The president of General Motors was in a foul humor. Arthur Hailey People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. Anne Ri...

paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you. Steven Pressfield If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible. John Shadegg I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly. Jeffrey Eugenides No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes. Kathe Kollwitz Divisiveness is not good for the people. Muqtada al Sadr I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of ...

just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of. Feist Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate! Sid Meier And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society. Henry Lawson I tend to be a little too old to feel guilty about watching anything. Like, I watch 'Survivor' every week. Adam Scott I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film. Matthew Vaughn The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency. Diane Ravitch In order to represent life ...

Fort Funston is big and always packed with hundreds of dogs and their people. A great place to hike and get some exercise and fresh air with your well-mannered pup. Not recommended for antisocial dogs; there's just too much commotion there. Jane Wiedlin Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. Jon Meacham If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments, you end up with an imbalance in your life. Alexander McCall Smith The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the least smart, or less educated. But I worked very hard. Mary Karr The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one. Diana Krall I have learned to delegat...

know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins. Michelle Bachelet I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward. Nia Long Just like Tim Robbins is very political - and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be - I want to be able to have this public personality that's considered authoritative. Christy Romano I think everyday people on the street who have never been affiliated with the tea party movement are alarmed with the spending and the debt that we have. Kristi Noem Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine. Whoopi Goldberg There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people. Bill Bowerman So I ha...

I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate. Whitney Cummings I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor. Vanessa Lengies You know, I'm a modern day Harry Belafonte; I got the swagger of the island. Wyclef Jean There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever. Jupiter Hammon I am the luckiest man in the world. Chuck Pagano We're all negotiators. Leigh Steinberg Isn't that an odd...

was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.' Dayo Okeniyi Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia. Julie Bishop We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny. Oscar de la Renta Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men. Steve Israel The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such...

and it was always what I felt, based on what I had learned at home, in my religion, and from society. I clung to that: 'This is me, it has to be me.' And if I had an encounter with someone of the same sex, I looked away. Ricky Martin My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books. James MacArthur There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do. Nikki Sixx I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. Oscar Niemeyer It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. Orville Redenbacher It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. Harriet Martineau There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came. George Ayittey Most of my albums have a concept. They all have some kind of theme, some...

screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems. Michael Shannon People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them. Dominic Monaghan I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly. Adam Michnik Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future. Carl Hiaasen I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core. Steven Erikson I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, nev...

friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened. Imogen Heap I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately. David Morse I always have those feelings - lucky and blessed - and I don't know if they'll ever go away. I really hope they don't, as I think it keeps you grounded. That's how I feel about every film I do. Teresa Palmer People are doing what they can these days and looking for creative ways to sell music. Greg Laswell We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is. Bernhard Langer Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in peop...

dreams, she always supported me and said to me, 'I'm never going to cut your wings, so don't let anyone else do that to you.' That has been my philosophy through life. I want to share that valuable lesson with my little girl someday. Roselyn Sanchez I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. Edward Hopper I'm always a fan of a good horror film. Andre Braugher I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles. Christina Milian You struggle with your demons and you conquer them. Kinky Friedman Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states. Jane Smiley Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer. Stark Sands...

your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact? If you don't have a great idea of your own, there are plenty of great teams that need you - unknown startups and established teams in giant companies alike. Justin Rosenstein Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word. Eric Gill Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells. Peter Agre Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument. Leon Kass If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially. Joel Osteen We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Zadie Smith Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day. Jesse Schell You're only as good as your last record and you could get d...

it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels. Jasper Fforde I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world. Orson Welles It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics? Mark Hyman Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary. Friedrich Ebert Anybody can be ambitious. Chris Hughes I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking. C. L. R. James When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away. Mitch Hedberg I see my role i...

York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel. Billy Campbell Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding. Kathryn Bigelow It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix. David Byrne We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense? Phylicia Rashad I listen to my body. Some days all I want is a good steak and others, I crave veggies and quinoa. Tracee Ellis Ross You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough ...

growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible. Anna Deavere Smith Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me. Danny Brown I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different. Harvey Fierstein At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges. Jeff Raikes Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind. Martha Beck I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less. Lillie Langtry It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper a...

way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. Emile Durkheim At an early age I discovered the beauty in pictures in 'Vogue' magazine and Ebony magazine, and I would read 'The New York Times.' I had to make my own world within my world because I was an only child. Andre Leon Talley I like things simple. Valentino Garavani The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. Jonathan Sacks I consider myself a boy in a dress. Bridget Kelly I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska. Ken Wilber The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. ...

conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!' Kristen Stewart Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects. James Surowiecki If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen. Alice Cooper We did this film in 13 days, mind you. And 13 days is not very long for a feature film. Nobody in their right mind would argue that. Nobody in their right mind would do that. Kurtwood Smith And I loved Fats Waller. I love h...

usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing. Bong Joon-ho Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos. Tony Yayo Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much. Donatella Versace I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. Joe Garagiola Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier. Zach Galifianakis Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach. Adam Oates In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similari...

back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready! Greg Kinnear There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others. Linda Blair I wasn't frightened of people, but I didn't have a clue about the adult world. Shirley Henderson I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other. Karen Allen If you don't look good, we don't look good. Vidal Sassoon I've only dressed in drag three or four times. Adam Lambert I like to think of myself as a character actor, though there'...

a different voice come out of you and to have a different life for a couple of hours. I like being myself. But maybe it's like you ride a bike every day and someone says, 'For two hours tonight do you want to ride this Harley?' You'd be like, 'OK yeah!' Cristin Milioti I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions. Karl Lagerfeld An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more! Marla Sokoloff Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity. Pratibha Patil Progress can be unglamorous. Jardine Libaire 'No' is always an easier stand than 'Yes.' Rosabeth Moss Kanter The Renaissance is studded by the names of th...

men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will? Lisa Gardner Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did. Elizabeth Hurley I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of. George Bentham In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war. Mark Burnett I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place. Robert Rauschenberg Statistic...

going to love it,' well, then you're going to alienate everybody else. When I cut my record, I'm just going to cut the things that I like, and whoever likes it, likes it. That's too much work to try to figure out the demographic. That's too much like a business. Jason Aldean It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else. Gerd von Rundstedt I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort. Sergey Brin Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. Stanislav Grof I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first. Rickey Henderson We all make mistakes and sometime...

from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different. Frank Miller I never slept outside of my home. Paz Vega I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world. Ellen Page Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course. Thomas Frank Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state. David Miliband I can't be optimistic. I can be hopeful. Fay Vincent I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. Armand Assante I go out with a lot of British people. Some of them say I sound a little tipsy. Callan McAuliffe A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket. Emil Zatopek My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby. ...

is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band. Johnny Ramone The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression. Clara Hughes Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. Brian Reynolds Myers I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it. Shemar Moore Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans. Nicolas Roeg When you're...

we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one. Michael Chiklis When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank. Linwood Barclay One very important element for me to make a movie is, it has to be unique and different from any other. Stephen Chow Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters. Justin Bieber The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society. James Anthony Froude I wanted to do something inspirational for my children. Harvey Weinstein My favorite tennis player, who I'm amazed by,...

and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. Camille Paglia The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy. Ben E. King Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. Peter Diamandis Being in New York City is the best because I'm always walking, taking the subway and walking up and down the stairs - whether you like it or not, you're going to get exercise. Ana Ortiz Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it. Brad Gilbert I'm really interested in people's decisions. Chr...

overwhelming and unmanageable. As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern 'superwoman' wears off and reality sets in. Mika Brzezinski Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh. Julie Brown I used to read comics when I was a kid. Jeff Bridges Kids have awkward moments. Kenan Thompson Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Amy Poehler Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production. Beth Henley Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story. Frank Ocean I think, by nature you know, I...