Can we achieve 140 mpg fuel economy? You bet. Just get the bureaucrats out of the way, and

Yankee ingenuity will do the rest.

Robert Zubrin

Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.
John Constable

I'm constantly struggling in interviews to engage and finish sentences, because I am being asked personal questions from somebody I don't know.
Katherine Waterston

I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.
Everett McGill

I don't think that Argentinian cinema is well-known outside Argentina the way it should be.
Guillermo del Toro

Tobe Hooper - he did my favorite horror movie, 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre.' It's still one of my favorite horror films.
Fred Willard

I have great Indian genes! You know, I'm lazy. I want to take advantage of the fact that I have a great metabolism. When I start getting fat, I'll work on it! I like food, and I don't like the gym, and as long as I look like this without doing anything, why bother?
Priyanka Chopra

The idea of a computer winning the Nobel Prize for physics is not too unlikely, citing a computer as joint recipient. It's obviously not a huge leap to think of something similar happening in fiction.
Alastair Reynolds

If one lazily thinks of what a fashion designer might do if he's going to conquer cinema next, it would be taking the opportunity to display his fashion sensibilities.
Colin Firth

TLC always looked up to male bands. We saw guy groups could just go out and get the fans screaming by just standing there - fully clothed and with nothing but their music... We saw them as the competition more than the girl groups, with whom we wanted to stay unified.
Tionne Watkins

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.
Clive Cussler

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When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes.

There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years. Jamie Dimon This is sports. In sports, you win and you lose. That's the nature of sports. You can't get away from that part of it. And if you get too hung up on the losing part, then you miss the boat. The competition part, a game like that, is why you play sports. That is as good as it gets. David Robinson Climate change is a global crisis - one the international community and private sector must tackle together if we have any hope of averting the worst impacts on our health, our economies, and our communities. Tom Steyer I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them. Dennis Farina I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot. ...

I love the way this sport has evolved and impacted every segment of society.

Now you have cross training and weight training in every sport and from middle school kids to senior citizens. Lee Haney People make a mistake thinking that two people with identical mindset gel well. Gautam Gambhir If money is tight, or you're on a limited budget, then consider DIY or used gifts. DIY could be something like baked goods for your friends, family, and neighbors. Plus, if you have children, it's a great activity to do with them during the holidays. John Rampton The custom of clasping hands is thought to date back thousands of years, as proof of not holding any weapons. Faith Salie I believe in term limits. I believe the country would be hugely better off if we had more turnover in Congress. Bill Flores When we demand Woman Suffrage, we can only do so on the ground, not that it should be a right attached to the possession of a certain amount of property, but that it should be inherent in the woman herself. Clara Zetkin I stopped acting a long time ago and my prim...

Having kids has been great for me. I have two beautiful step- kids, as well

as my own new daughter. They've really helped me to keep my feet firmly on the ground, and life is good. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy here. Matt LeBlanc I think playing somebody who's schizophrenic is such a lesson as an actor. It gets you totally out of your comfort zone, because you can't rely on your technique, your external stuff. You've really gotta look inward, in a way. Matt Dillon I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40. Elizabeth Warren Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all. Jason Schwartzman If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at ...

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the

sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. Mary Wortley Montagu The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords. Christopher Gadsden I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation. James A. Michener It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. John Scott I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. Iris Chang Desire creates the power. Raymond Holliwell...

I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to

be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them. Cecily von Ziegesar I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective. Gary Ackerman I've had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I've been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions. Richard MacDonald I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was...

We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude

films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage. Ivor Novello Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can be nicely demonstrated. Niklaus Wirth Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded. Laurie Anderson Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries. Laurel Clark Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel. John Irving I've never done an action show, really. On 'Jericho,' other people got to ride horses and shoot guns, but I never did. Sprague Grayden I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really. Al Yankovic I love the fact that I can go out there on ...

Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over

calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window. Marcus Samuelsson I've been drawing authors and politicians for newspapers for many years. I try to read up on the person; in the case of authors, read one of their books. I watch interviews via YouTube and collect pictures via the Internet. Siegfried Woldhek I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family. Rafael Nadal We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society. Christian de Duve I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate. John Catsimatidis I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday. Kurt Cobain I never really liked the Gosp...

To shape today's and tomorrow's 'future proof' worker, schools must teach specialized

hard skills, such as the STEM skills that are in high demand. Alain Dehaze If you sit there and dwell on the fact that you did something... you will lose your mind. Marcus Luttrell Once people enjoy what I do, I don't mind if they call me a magician or an illusionist or a hypnotist, entertainer, comedian, whatever people want to call me. I'm comfortable with all of the above, so I don't really mind at all what people want to call me. Keith Barry We're looking for the early adopter who considers style to be an important part of the purchase decision. But they'll be getting a practical car with plenty of trunk space they can use for picking up building supplies at Home Depot. Franz von Holzhausen L.A. and America, in general, have this incredible hustle about them. There's this sense of momentum. Alycia Debnam-Carey Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean. Steven Van Zandt So...

Frankly, the idea that we need to be beautiful, if you really think about it, it's odd.

But if you can turn it inward and see yourself as beautiful, that's what changes the world. Shonda Rhimes My respect for TSA agents went up a notch. We look at 'em like, 'You can't bother me, I'm gettin' on my flight. Stop wastin' my time.' They're doing it to protect us. Their job is to do everything they're doing. We sometimes don't respect other people's jobs because we're caught up in our world. Lil Rel Howery I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose. Jeffrey Wright I came to Notre Dame to renew the winning tradition. Ara Parseghian As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices. Mary Lou Jepsen I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future. John Cameron...

My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never

thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money. Alan C. Greenberg Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure. Linwood Barclay In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth. Viggo Mortensen The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other. Hermann Ebbinghaus Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp...