it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there. Elizabeth Gilbert It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back. Loretta Swit Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note! Derek Luke The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown. Victor Garber That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. Izaak Walton You need to write on your own and produce your own life. Courtney Love Getting on the bus and touring was my life. And when that was not around, I felt myself a bit lost at times, because that was all I had. Keith Urban Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it! Jill Hennessy There's nothing undignified ...

After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even. Amity Shlaes However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years. Daniel Goleman I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way. Daryl Hall I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to. Eddie Slovik I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. Patrick White We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy. Thelma Drake I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society. Neil deGrasse Tyson I prefer to see with closed eyes. Josef Albers I'm no day at the beach. And if it is a beach, it's Hampton Beach. Ever ...

a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value. Leslie Jamison I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed. J. C. Watts Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. Alexander Hamilton Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition. Ryan Seacrest I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with. R...

or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often. Terry Pratchett I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy. Cory Monteith It's not health care reform to dump more money into Medicaid. Phil Bredesen I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't. Yancy Butler A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others. Indira Gandhi A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. Honore de Balzac I write a...

or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness. Christina Hoff Sommers There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted. Josie Maran If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm. Orson Welles I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set. Jeff Bridges Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. George Gissing You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. Van Morrison The film of tomorrow will be an act of love. Francois Truffaut We must keep both our femininity a...

sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy or whether it's drama, and trust that they're going to tell me if something's reading as funny or if it's reading as dramatic or reading in the right tone. Amy Seimetz Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. Kenzaburo Oe If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it? Ian Botham If a band is really good and the chemistry is unique, it should continue. But I guess David is just very happy doing his solo career. He's got a different band every time he goes out. Chris Frantz All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' Dan Stevens There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite. Joseph Fiennes I have ...

the ueber-fairy. She's the pin-up girl of fairies. She's the ultimate fairy, but she's also got a mischievous spirit and she's very strong-willed. I think a lot of youngsters recognize themselves in Tinker Bell. Michael Sheen All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them. Barry Commoner I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. Richard Hammond I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. Christie Brinkley I do not believe having a baby is punishment. Allen West I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance. Willie Stargell It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline. Graydon Car...

had the privilege of having long and very intellectual conversations with people, and sometimes I just sit there and listen. It's like a better version of a class. Even though I'm not sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time. Hayden Panettiere Instead of cutting waste, the Obama Administration is hurting workers. President Obama should stop protecting wasteful government spending. Timothy Griffin Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. Joan Didion Not everyone can come and post on Forbes; it's a very distinguishing factor for us. We vet the folks who come on board. Michael Perlis Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd. Trey Parker I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drive...

And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that's a great example for a man, a strong man, a man's man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody. Maria Shriver So when you tell a joke, you want to make someone laugh, or if you tell a story about someone who had a heart attack, it may be because you want the listener to exercise. Stories are tools to create social cohesion and to get humans to strategize together. Peter Guber I've been a boxing fan ever since I was a kid. Robert Goulet Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it. Jehane Noujaim Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof. Andy Samberg Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional. Terry Eagleton Al Qaeda has come back. Al Qaeda is a resilient organization. But they're not here in large numbers. B...

want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet. Carla Gugino Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain? Sophocles If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat. Ronald Isley Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. David Mamet The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds. Sara Ramirez I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in. Andrea McLean I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, w...

at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right. Pauley Perrette Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London. Gordon Bethune Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution. Bobby Ray Inman Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant. Chris Martin My favorite dish is bibimbap, which is composed of various vegetables, steamed and pickled, and meat toppings o...

time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both. Robert McKee If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again. Usain Bolt I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want. Parker Stevenson I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now! Chris O'Dowd I do get most of the harder-to-get stories. Victoria Gotti There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention. Robert Bourassa I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place ...

you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. Alexander Osterwalder There are so many people who have died of cycling, and that didn't happen when I was racing. Greg LeMond You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. Conrad Hall After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan You learn more from the flops than from the hits. Theodore Bikel Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. James D. Watson And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music. Merle Haggard You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil. DMX I grew up on a...

possibility of upward movement, and I wanted freedom. I need to be outside living life, not stuck in an office. I figured I could either be out selling condos in Miami, or I could move to L.A. and chase after that elusive actor's job. Dawn Olivieri I thought 'Skyfall' was a sumptuous film. Matt Smith To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions. Michael Sandel Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics. Shia LaBeouf Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new. Rob Bell I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging. Zach Galifianakis It's a rock 'n' roll thing to have one-night stands. Rick Springfield If...

and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars. Janine di Giovanni I really didn't know how people were going to react to 'Magic Mike' because there hasn't been a movie like it. Jenna Dewan Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message. Ted Cruz Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it. Camille Claudel Now that I'm a political pundit, I have the ability to influence people. Jonathan Krohn I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world. Lind...