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I'm definitely the most tech-savvy in my family. My wife wouldn't have a clue, as

far as getting the computer working. All of my kids, it's amazing. Like everybody's kids, they're more savvy than I am, probably. Chris O'Donnell I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that. Alice Eve With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'. Barbara Boxer The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip. John Cleese I ran to my marriage, I was happily ready to take on marriage. Mark Ruffalo Tolerance is the price we pay for living in a free, pluralistic society. Robert Casey The thrill, believe me, is as much in the battle as in the victory. David Sarnoff I am not a sound bite person. I prefer to run at the mouth. Marina Sirtis If you're good, you're always look...

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I

was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting. Colin Hanks I am a Facebook voyeur. I feel bad about it because I never put anything on there, but I find it fun to sit there and watch peoples' lives go by. Or whatever lives they're presenting. Eddie Kaye Thomas Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. Linus Pauling I divide my time between Columbia, Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set. Gloria Stuart I believe in God and immortality. Alex Campbell Forgive your enemies, but first get even. Lester Cole I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time. Shirley Henderson Talent is very dangerous. It ...

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and

doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that. Frank Bruno I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. Mel Brooks We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do. John McCain In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England. Niall Ferguson Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. Evelyn Waugh Everywhere you look these days you see Carolina athletes. Lorrie Fair The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. Benjamin Disraeli Again, racing for me was about energy management. Frank Shorter I love visual gags and gimmicks; I love them. Sia When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots. Edward Ruscha

Men who are not given any voice in this because of the secret nature of

the courts, what they're left with is dressing up ridiculously, but at least using humour to try and draw attention to their kids. Bob Geldof The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert. Nobuo Uematsu Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances. Mike McGavick I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school. Yehuda Berg I am a big soccer fan, and a very big Liverpool fan. Clive Owen I think everybody has a secret life. Joanne Harris I worked for a lot of directors. Tony Gilroy Be content to seem what you really are. Marcus Aurelius Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life. Brian Celio We continue to be vigilant. Marek Belka

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we

need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities. Marvin Olasky I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really. Johnny Vegas While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world. Michael K. Simpson I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family. Hilary Swank That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love. Laura Dern You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. Alan Watts I want to stretch myself as an actor. Victoria Justice I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week. Art Bell ...

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people

hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait. Cameron Diaz Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time. Yuri Milner Wonder is that possession of the mind that enchants the emotions while never surrendering reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant high points in order to be maintained, nor is it made vulnerable by the low points of life's struggle. Ravi Zacharias When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? Charles Olson Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship. Krist Novoselic I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday. Paulina Porizkova Hitler was good in the b...

I've never asked for special treatment along the way. And I'm never going to hide

the fact that I'm a girl, ever. That's obvious, isn't it? Danica Patrick The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy. Kathy Bates There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers. Kate Winslet Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world. Aung San Suu Kyi Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball. Leigh Steinberg I balance my meals. I have never been a big dessert guy. Robert Herjavec The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex. Bobby Darin As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy. Laura Schlessinger If you plan to win as I do, the game never ends. Stan Mikita

I'm very proud that our country still produces people like my son, who choose the

path less traveled; that knowingly step up to serve, even though our country is tearing itself apart with things like political machinations. Steve Daines The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years. Vince Cable The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away. Duncan Sheik I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done. Franz Schubert We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. Patrick McHenry There's only so far you can go before you say enough is enough. Jennifer Granholm When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself? Tori Amos I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes. Philippa Gregory I don't really study the guys that I'm racing against. Ryan Hall Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing ...

I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea

of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra. Mark Burnett Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them. Ani DiFranco We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police. Theresa May Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice. Alain Robert I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all. Julie Harris Nonviolence is fine as long as it works. Malcolm X We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation. Lester B. Pearson I don...

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic

view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that. Ed Miliband I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that. Shia LaBeouf A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine. Olga Kurylenko Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic. Franz Beckenbauer I cast unusual people in my movies. Albert Brooks I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising. Phil Knight Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect. Andrew Sullivan He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. Frantz Fanon Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter. Ivor Novello You can almos...

There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not

as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great. Denise Mina Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future. Harriet Harman I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things. Leighton Meester Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother. Halle Berry I just think people should be able to express themselves. Vince Carter That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer. Anthony Eden At times I make music, but in private. Stella McCartney Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can....

If you like the health insurance that you have you should be able to keep

it, but if you don't like the health insurance you have, you should be able to choose something else. Ron Wyden I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. Josephine Baker As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. Oliver Goldsmith I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. Orson Welles When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat. Andy Murray I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should. Stephen Dorff We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness. Bernard Williams Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic. Evgeny Morozov I'm interested in spirituality and in religion an...

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's

the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity. Zadie Smith It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess. Luc Montagnier Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program. Louise Slaughter I don't think I'm funny. Liam Neeson Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us. Eric Alterman If you watch Cheers, in 12 years they didn't age a day. William Devane Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that. Ichiro Suzuki All actors have to change their name. Jeremy Irvine My viewpoint is the Senate is dysfunctional. Mo Brooks I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5. Lenny Kravitz

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the

same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs. James Fallows The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate. Tony Kushner Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they saw her, and felt she was outside looking in. This year, she still hopes people will accept her for who she is, but if they don't, she's OK with that. Ellen Muth Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. Erich Fromm I started playing the guitar and singing at about 11 or 12. Drake Bell Computers get better faster than anything else ever. Erik Brynjolfsson Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah. Hassan Nasrallah It's hard for wo...

Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is

what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.' Adam Pally The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions. Ike Skelton In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man. Robert Dale Owen We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good. Marta Kristen I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. Jimmy Swaggart Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. Richard Whately It's one of the reasons I don't do dru...

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the

woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes. Whitney Cummings There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being. Helen Fisher Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available. Nathan Myhrvold I'm OK: I don't need money. Manolo Blahnik I'm not a film snob. Tracey Ullman Factory farming's evil; you know that. Eric Ripert From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do. Billy Crystal I've always been such a nerd. Grimes One must k...

I love 'Modern Family;' I don't exactly watch it when it's on, but I try

to catch up on it when I can; it's one of my favorite shows. Morena Baccarin I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. Chuck Palahniuk A young man who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord. Ezra Taft Benson My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity. Prince William When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself. Layne Staley Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. Tom Peters I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent. Eddie Huang We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectati...

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And

there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. A. N. Wilson That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends. Adam Rich I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults. Jack Wild Love other human beings as you would love yourself. Ho Chi Minh I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy! Malin Akerman Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life. Teri Garr The only two men I have time for are Barack Obama and my trainer. Sophia Bush I love my job, I've always loved my job. Sienna Miller I always felt more emotionall...

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream,

with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time. Brian De Palma Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility. Bret Easton Ellis You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together. Adam Gopnik I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better. Rebecca Eaton You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan. Lynne Truss However long the song is was how long it took us to write it. Geezer Butler The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started. Penelope Ann Miller To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too. Warren Moon I real...

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years

old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh. Paul Reubens The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. Buffalo Bill I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it. Gerard Way I want to feel my life while I'm in it. Meryl Streep I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy. Audrey Tautou A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet. Anna Held I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating. Ahmet Zappa America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty. Hugh Evans I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero! Aaron Yoo Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. Ray Stannard Baker

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a

lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other. Emmanuelle Beart If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day - that's the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That's the only reason I'm OK right now. Amaury Nolasco When I know the data that's being shared and I'm asked explicitly for my consent, I want some sites to understand my habits. It helps them suggest books for me to read or movies for my family to watch or friends for us to connect with. Gary Kovacs I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature. Carlos Fuentes I'm usually just enjoying life. Alan Jackson When you read a script, you get a feeling from it. Sasha Alexander I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body. Steven Seagal I don't look for bliss, just contentment. Alison Krauss But by all this I am no...

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to

film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character. Rowan Atkinson Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened. Patricia Richardson My father, who educated his children on worldly principles, gave us much money, considering our age; not in order that we might spend it, but, as he said, to accustom us to possess money without spending it. The result was, that it led me and my brother into many sins. George Muller When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can. Thomas Perry It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything. Colin Quinn I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that. David Coverdale Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid. Lucian ...

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven

art schools and was rejected by all seven. Janet Echelman I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it. Ian MacKaye If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it. Daniel Day-Lewis I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst. Hillary Clinton You are only as successful as the people who work for you want you to be. Ronald Lauder The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Ayumi Hamasaki Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind. Abdus Salam I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me. Evel Knievel Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen. Arianna Huffington I like Public Enemy a great deal. Randy Newman

Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go

on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'. Anthony Anderson I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength. Black Elk There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. Alfie Allen A million thoughts went through my mind. What little mind I have. Fuzzy Zoeller I don't feel very optimistic in London. David Bailey I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all. Quentin Tarantino I'm ready to rock and roll. Tony Romo It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official. Eric Holder The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in. Robert Plant Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Tim O'Brien

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then

has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives. Paul Simon When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great. Tori Amos I'm very impressed by St. Patrick's. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks. Caroline Rhea Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic. James Balog Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free. Garet Garrett I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog. Abel Ferrara People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach. Felix Baumgartner I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films. Joe Cornish I'm playing to...

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but

there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO. Andrew Mason Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace. Walter Ulbricht I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm. Bruce Forsyth I never said I was a 'good girl.' I'm not a bad girl. Kelly Clarkson I can't think of a better place to be than Scottsville, Virginia. Robert Hurt I am a supporter of the state of Israel. Feisal Abdul Rauf I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. Greg Kinnear Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job. Minoru Yamasaki So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies. John Frankenheimer We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car

accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them. Manu Bennett It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments. George Papandreou When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo. Carla Bley We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates. Bubba Sparxxx The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it. Bobby Heenan All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs. John Guare I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit. Louise Jameson The dieting wars have got to stop. Lady Gaga The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. Brian Tracy A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose. ...

It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as

well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head. Sienna Miller I love being a student, if I could, I'd stay in school forever. Andrea Barber We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do. Mira Nair I felt I was owned by possessions. Nicolas Berggruen I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else. Rowan Atkinson Sex appeal is not on purpose. Heather Locklear You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up. Peter Dawson I'm not looking for guidance. Liam Gallagher Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me. Wiz Khalifa If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians. Neville Marriner

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters

and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! Judy Blume It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus? Tulsi Gabbard Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette I want to be a cool mom. Tori Spelling What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats. Morrie Schwartz Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. Carl von Clausewitz I'm Dario Argento, and my style is something recognizable I think by the audience. Dario Argento Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles. Camillo di Cavour People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something. Carrot Top Private property is a very fu...

I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror.

I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate. Nathan Fillion The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest. Susan Orlean I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. A. R. Ammons I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published. Greg Egan A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. Renzo Piano I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin. Ray LaMontagne The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete. Nancy Pearcey Aside from sales, the letters from readers have been primarily positive. Jean M. Auel Frontmen come alive when they ...

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a

religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly. Lionel Blue One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that. Mo Rocca I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies. Sam Raimi I am a Patsy Cline fan. Charlie Day Autism is a very serious condition. George Osborne Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money. David Geffen I have tried to kill sectarianism, whether in Catholics or Protestants. James Larkin We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope. Anna Chlumsky The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably. Anita Ekberg Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do. Erin Gruwell

Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard

charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will. LaToya London My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician. Branford Marsalis Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters... on that aspect, no. Jessica Lynch The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible. Bela Lugosi You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist. Pharrell Williams In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can. Jesse Eisenberg The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change. Eric Sevareid I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me. Megan Fox It is much safer to obey than to rule. Thomas a Kempis Som...

When we got down to the Super Bowl in '85, against the Patriots, we're down

there on the field checking things out. This helicopter flies overhead, probably taking pictures, and McMahon just moons it. He mooned the helicopter from the field. William Perry Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, either. He liked a country where the wild animals lived without being afraid. Laura Ingalls Wilder 'Moonwalking with Einstein' refers to a memory device I used when I memorized a deck of playing cards at the U.S. Memory Championship. When I competed in 2006, I set a new U.S. record by memorizing a deck of cards in one minute and 40 seconds. That record has since fallen. Joshua Foer From my earliest days I had a passion for science. Joseph Rotblat Actually I dance really well on the floor. Oksana Baiul I like performing. I like partnering with an audience. Carrie Fisher I'm a mediator by training and inclination. Joan Blades I write books to find out about things. Rebecca West ...

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom,

democracy and liberty, not to violate that. John O. Brennan I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad. Glenn Frey All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have. Daniel Defoe The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Desmond Tutu I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation. Dan Reynolds It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands. Cornel West I don't generally do movies that get good reviews. Seann William Scott Atari is a very sad story. Steve Wozniak Netflix, I love you. Beau Mirchoff I am mentally strong. Wayne Rooney

The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive

on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt. Rachel Cusk Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself. L. Wolfe Gilbert When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom. Ryan Seacrest Since when is anyone truly honest with anyone? Helen Fisher The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me. Norman McLaren You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good. Keith Richards Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external. Martin Amis I like to build things. I like to do things. Walter Chrysler If you really kill, you don't want to talk ab...

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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President

Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things. Ted Olson In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. Steve Buscemi Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those. Spencer Abraham When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes! Ken Hensley I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later. Susan George Someti...

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're

serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally. John Blair I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new. Robin Gibb When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything. Cindy Sheehan We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people. Thad Cochran I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission. Tom Hayden Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease. John Witherspoon ...

I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me

fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have. Lou Henry Hoover I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world. Anthony Braxton You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. James A. Baldwin It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. Cynthia McKinney I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater. John Hughes Just what you want to be, y...

The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave

that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another. Katie Kitamura In politics, you've got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica. Tim Kaine I get a stack of scripts, like, once a month, and most of the time, you find these placeholder girls that are there to provide a bounce for the male character. So we know he's funny because she's serious and she's mad at him. We know he's strong because she needs saving. So really, her job is to validate this personality trait of our hero or male. Amber Heard Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious. Simon Rattle If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of...

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group

of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be. William Golding I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play. Aja Naomi King I am a very strong supporter of our government's view that it is important to engage with all countries around the world - very much including Russia. Chrystia Freeland I was wrapping up my stint on 'Daredevil' co-writing with Andy Diggle during the Shadowland story, when Marvel asked if I was interested in doing something else with DD but a bit different. When they explained the purpose of the 'Season One' books, I was intrigued - I'm a big advocate of books for people new to the medium - and said yes. Antony Johnston Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw ...

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who

have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. Freeman Dyson I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh. Norman Wisdom I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens. John Linder I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. Christopher Hitchens I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy. Joss Whedon People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint. Joel Coen I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music. Chuck Mangione Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take ...

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly

would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology. Major Owens The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. Daniel Bell I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum. Anita Baker I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. George Crumb An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame. Bo Bennett HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask fo...

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the

need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. Leo Rosten I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world! Lea DeLaria First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. Julie Nixon Eisenhower My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again! Ben Elton It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. Sam Levenson On gym days, I don't get to my de...

It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme'

'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful. Wendell Pierce I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part. Eric Bana I only watch MSNBC for the news. Andre Leon Talley I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. Michael Schiavo In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. Tahar Ben Jelloun If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. Robert Anton Wilson The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power. Jerry Rubin You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up. Fantasia Barrino Anything to do with the land, I love. Chris LeDoux ...

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to

own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along. Marc Maron I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit. Dakota Fanning All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault. Paul von Hindenburg Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! Tony Robbins My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. Winfield Scott Hancock He who knows ho...