could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself. Bob Dylan Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space. Ronald Graham I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us. Carrie Snodgress Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser. Ray Lewis The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more. D. H. Lawrence Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it. Dianne Feinstein I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airb...

code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. Rick Perry The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. Jean Piaget Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose. Nina Bawden Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. Arne Duncan When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers. Haile Gebrselassie I've been in this bu...

this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way. Amy Chua Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral. Demetri Martin It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. Henry Lawson But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer. Conrad Hall We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. Angelina Grimke For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights. Jennifer Chiaverini I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used...

I'm not evaluating somebody. I'm only evaluating them insofar as they're interacting with me, but I'm not evaluating their skill set and I don't watch the movies, so I'm not aware of the way they're putting things together. Jesse Eisenberg In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish. Karl Lagerfeld I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment. Felicity Jones Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way. David Hasselhoff Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation. Timothy Radcliffe Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it. John Wilbanks We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. W...

what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to - it's like, I can't be all of those things at once. I'm a human being. Nicki Minaj My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. Antonio Gramsci I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. Jeffrey Eugenides I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry. Maya Rudolph There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others. Bob Kerrey I didn't have a good childhood growing up. Julie Roberts I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do. Fred Korematsu During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of c...

and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody. Danny Pino Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money. Nate Ruess I never allow myself to be pressured. Mahendra Singh Dhoni People don't talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it's not an incredibly safe place to do it. Zachary Levi I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand. John Otto I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses. Bo Derek Every music journalist I'...

it's choppy: it's filled with all kinds of irrationalities and stupid actions. I have some notion, and then I drop it because something else comes along. I'm forever darting from one side of the room to the other. Edward Ruscha A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin. Joseph Altuzarra I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go. Paula Deen I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult. Matt Groening For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life. Leland Ryken For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another. June Carter Cash Bot...

your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next. Lady Gaga Pregnancy is a kind of miracle. Especially so in that it proves that a man and woman can conspire to force God to create a new soul. Robert Anton Wilson I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. Amy Tan I started playing music when I was 12 years old. Chris Jericho I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials. Devon Sawa You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. Vivien Leigh I know there are some labels that put out music for art...

of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies. Richard D. Zanuck I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. J. J. Abrams My trainer Jimmy Tibbs and my promoter Frank Warren told me that I had to be patient and get the jab going. Billy Joe Saunders Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker. Marilyn vos Savant With the super duper flow, I created that one word rhyme style. Big Sean Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. Pearl S. Buck When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz. Pixie Lott A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the gre...

of being reactive. Unfortunately, September 11 came and we know the result. Thousands of people lost their lives. Security totally failed, not at one airport, at three different airports around the country. Isaac Yeffet My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work. Mark Mothersbaugh When I like something, I love it, but then I'll let it go completely. Nicholas Hoult My rookie year, I was very immature. Dennis Rodman My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. Billie Joe Armstrong The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. Michael Porter I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something. Michael Winslow I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Eur...

this family. I'm now going on four years of working with the same 100 people, and that helps you feel like your life has more roots. It's more conducive to having a family, and you're staying in town. So that part is amazing. Dax Shepard My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens. Joseph Bologna If producing a regular column is living out loud, then keeping a daily blog is living at the top of your lungs. For a couple of months there, I was shrieking like a banshee. Ayelet Waldman Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later. Gene Wolfe Have I personally ever seen a ghost? Not one. Dan Aykroyd I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars. Brooke Burke It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings. Stephen Gardiner Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to...

We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs. Ginnifer Goodwin A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people. Billy Ray Cyrus I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better. John Stossel You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art. Bill Viola If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something. Nathan Myhrvold I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channe...

I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen. Jacques Pepin There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear. Harold Coffin Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. Milton Berle If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy. Pia Toscano You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path. Avan Jogia I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible. Robin Thicke Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn...

crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9 and 14 it was really, really rough. I didn't have a lot of friends. The only ones who were nice to me were the theater kids. And they were like, 'You can come and join us. No one likes us.' Cristin Milioti If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television. Jamie Farr From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. Robert Nozick The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how. Ann Rule I like guys who are confident but not cocky, who are comfortable with themselves, and who know what they want. Mischa Barton A lot of actors flame out. George Hamilton The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. Katharine Whitehorn I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner. Helen Fisher If I can pay the bills, I...

all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Amy Klobuchar I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state. Kevin Shelley As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading. Lincoln Chafee My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe. Anton du Beke The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city. John Hickenlooper I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina. Skeet Ulrich ...