winter. I golf and swim in the summer months. However, trying to find the time to exercise when I am traveling is quite a challenge. I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training. Lee Byung-hun In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.' Alan Cumming I grew up in a one-parent family. I worked my way through college, I had very average grades and I was very average looking, but I've lived a remarkable life only because I believed I could. Georgette Mosbacher How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked. Burl Ives An artist's career always begins tomorrow. James Whistler Compared to what they were, rock concerts now are like business meetings. Paul Kantner I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun....

kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament. Edward Burtynsky I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. Eric Bogosian Having spent 10 years studying emerging markets, I know that you have patterns repeated over and over again. A bubble is like a fire which needs oxygen to continue... when you see there is no oxygen, things change. Nouriel Roubini If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer. Kate Atkinson I'm hardly the sexiest man in the world. I'm a bit of a geek. Jamie Campbell Bower There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules. Harold Pinter Tomorrow let us do or die! Thomas Campbell I give lectures on globaliz...

artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair. Cindy Sherman If the press really thinks Obama is Lincoln, they ought to treat him like they treated Bush, 'cause that's how they treated Lincoln. His critics compared Lincoln to an ape; they called him an illiterate baboon. Ann Coulter Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals. Carrot Top Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them. Louis C. K. I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed. Mark Zuckerberg I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for si...

find that there's sort of shorthand there, and there is this unspoken trust, both ways. They trust me and I trust them. And I know what I'm going to get from them, to an extent. It's just fun, kind of creating this little family. Todd Phillips American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. Diane Ravitch My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say. Diane Cilento Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler. Jean-Marie Messier Everything big-budget or stereotypical I was offered after 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a huge no-no. Freida Pinto Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. Lewis Mumford I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.' Henry Paulson Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it. Jay Hernandez If I wer...

helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation. Joshua Waitzkin When I was onstage doing the work, adrenaline killed the pain because I never hurt in front of an audience. Jerry Lewis I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done. Josh Turner I don't read such boring things. Life is too short. Gyorgy Ligeti My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things. Tiffeny Milbrett Everyone's journey is completely different. Jeremy Piven Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last? Tamara Tunie I'm really good at laundry, and I have no problem cl...

I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.' Harold Ford, Jr. My life is very much consumed with work. Ryan Kwanten Beauty has a lot to do with character. Kevyn Aucoin Convictions do not imply reasons. Margaret Deland If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves. Jupiter Hammon I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through. Harry Connick, Jr. I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain. Mike Tyson I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life. Lee Radziwill Sundays in France have a different atmosphere to ot...

you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that's what I'd be doing if I was watching this show at home! Nick Cannon I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention. M. Night Shyamalan I've lost love. I've tried to reclaim a lost love and didn't know how to do it. Sam Worthington However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment. Tim Holden Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective. Vitruvius I do not think wrestling is going to save the world. Billy Corgan I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set. Connie Stevens I didn't have any ambition to produce big mai...

1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters. Jon Meacham Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur. Paul Davies By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world. Johannes Stark I am going to do everything I can to clear my name. Michael Irvin Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes. Scott Hamilton There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all. Max von Sydow An unclean person is universally a slothful one. Henry David Thor...

it's going to reduce funding for state aid to our public schools, to our higher education institution or higher taxes on the middle class that President Obama said he didn't want to do. And that's exactly where he's headed. Dave Heineman I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make. Victoria Azarenka You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin. Rashida Jones I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work. Sara Paretsky People don't like to follow pessimists. Bob Iger One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course. Philip Warren Anderson I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical. Clifford Geertz Language commonly stresses only one side of any i...

see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing and understanding the world, and relating to it. My father approached things through scientific inquiry and exploration, while my mother experienced things through her emotions and senses. Jon Kabat-Zinn I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours. Rosario Dawson Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe. Wendell Pierce There are some days when I think for sure there are so many other stronger Christians than me out there. Elisabeth Hasselbeck Choose your love, Love your choice. Thomas S. Monson I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word. Mike Mills Darwinism is not merely...

all the songs that are referenced in '94' back in my club days. Joe Diffie was rocking a sick mullet, and he was hotter than ever... just putting out monster hit after monster hit. It totally takes me back to those days, and it makes me smile every time I hear it. Jason Aldean I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character. Naveen Andrews I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come. Wayne Rooney The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. Peter Ustinov I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly. Rod Stewart Passion has been in my DNA for generations. Julio Iglesias I'm attracted to the past. Tom Stoppard My main focus is on my game. Tiger Woods Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral aut...

saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully. Sean Durkin The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited. Joseph Franklin Rutherford You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside. Dan Auerbach I'm pretty lazy when it comes to creativity. I just want it to be easy and fun. Reggie Watts I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story. Kevin Durand We love things we love what they are. Robert Frost I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future....

and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York. Jake Johnson But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. Norman Lear I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture. Neil Tennant War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Aung San Suu Kyi Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive. Christian Lous Lange Turn your scars into stars. Robert H. Schuller I strive to be...

mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture. Curtis Jackson What we do to ourselves to look a certain way is crazy. Emily Browning There's a conscious decision to everything I do. Daniel Craig One of the exciting and enjoyable aspects of acting is being in the environment with another actor. Dominic Cooper For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do. Al Goldstein I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me. Zooey Deschanel I love what I do, somehow I have been able to play in a band for my entire life and that is all I ever wanted to do. I love that I get to do that. Scott Ian I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be de...

was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory. Roger Ebert I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it. Sally Schneider My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way. Etgar Keret And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.' Dave Foley So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available. Jon Johansen Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am. James Hillman Am I a household name? I still can't get my head around that. Brendan Coyle You don't have to b...