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I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency

savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance. Suze Orman Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers. Susan Lucci If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate. Rene Redzepi I played cello in my high school orchestra. Eberhard Weber For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can. Eric Whitacre Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress. Tim Robbins We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts. Sonia Sotomayor Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people. Stephen Hopkins I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced. Elizabeth Edwards Me be...

Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I

think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable. April Gornik I work out with a trainer five days a week. Jordana Brewster I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in. John Green The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone. Karl Rove Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself. Anita Hill My neighbor is now an 18-wheeler who comes by here 1,000 times a day. Gordon Smith Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after. Jimmy Smith And I remember looking at Gray Davi...

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing,

but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it. Larry Wall Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything. Ashley Scott The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great. Abbie Hoffman It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. Wendell Berry A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. Jose Bergamin Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean? Jason Schwartzman We never heard of tape. Everything was live, live, live. Eydie Gorme People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make. Juliana Hatfield All disgust is originally disgust at touching. Walter Benjamin I didn't wa...

Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look

at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important. Issey Miyake Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life. Georges Cuvier Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans. Ron Lewis Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. Aleister Crowley Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art. Miguel de Cervantes Live music is better. Neil Young I am a kid. I'll always be a girl at heart. Amber Valletta My major influence was my ten years older sister. Willa Ford I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both. Demian Bichir I love therapy! There's nothing like talking to someone who has no emotion...

I'm not like the next Michael Jordan, but I'm also not what everyone saw me

as before I started playing in the NBA, either. Jeremy Lin The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage. Linda McMahon I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media. Brenda Lee I'm more of a culture hummingbird. Jai Rodriguez I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you. Jane Wagner I like how strong Sade is and how she doesn't give away too much. Jessie Ware I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things. Joe Namath I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books. Terry Brooks He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within. Quintus Ennius ...

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really

famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there. Penn Jillette I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me. Jennifer Tilly I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care. Adam Hasner I'm still true to my Southern roots. Randy Jackson I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets. Chris Pratt I can hypnotize rabbits. Elena Anaya I can't bear Catholicism. George Michael I'm happy people look at me as a role model. Lara Stone The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear. George Weinberg After the accident Black Sheep was pretty much at an end. Lou Gramm

I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I

will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses. Eddie Huang Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke. Linda Cardellini But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information. Boutros Boutros-Ghali A concept is stronger than a fact. Charlotte Perkins Gilman There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind. Bill Nye I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland. Kenny Cunningham I am a focused person. I am a fighter. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. Lionel Blue I grew up in a funny way. Gordon Ramsay Music can tear me up inside. Florence ...

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily

press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it. Zac Efron I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America. David Morrissey One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. Edward Coke Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm. Bernard Williams Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk. Peggy Noonan People leave when life becomes untenable where they are. Isabel Wilkerson Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. Bill Moyers I've always thought live albums were cop-outs. David Coverdale Online communities are an expression of loneliness. Joanne Harris

The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good

blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme. James Fenton I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children. Kim Cattrall The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness. Mike Krzyzewski If you're not having fun it's not worth doing. Tommy Bolin There's not really anywhere I can go without being recognized, but if I put my hair up, that cuts the crowd in half. Shaun White I believe most things can be said in a few lines. Enzo Ferrari I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup. Robin Tunney A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment. Vesta Williams Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another. Dhani Jones Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready. James Taylor

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that

the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels. Kathleen Kenyon My team has been very unreceptive about the fact that I consistently show them that I train slightly differently than they do, that I consistently show them that I am in better shape for ski racing than anyone else on the team. Bode Miller Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. A. R. Ammons The truly creative people tend to be outliers. Nolan Bushnell I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley. Samantha Barks Business can talk itself into a blue funk. Helen Clark There is no suspense in inevitability. Damon Lindelof I have a very strong belief in God. M. Ward To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life. Edwin Markham A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. Jose Bergamin

Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did

so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could. Oscar Robertson Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand. Friedrich Durrenmatt And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live. Criss Angel I don't like to rate myself; others can do that. Felix Baumgartner I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately. Sabrina Lloyd I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. Billy Zane I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky. Mads Mikkelsen There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book. Asne Seierstad The deterio...

I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films

were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful. Max von Sydow It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go. Gwen Moore Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night. Richard H. Davis I can procrastinate a little bit. will.i.am Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears. Angelina Maccarone The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man. Robinson Jeffers The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound. Dennis Rodman I think what people might not really know about me is that I'm really a shy individual. Jerry Rice Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing. Bruce Wil...

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that,

where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Junius On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know? Burt Ward It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love. Cedric the Entertainer Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway. LeBron James You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.' Madeleine Albright You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. Harold S. Geneen Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Nathaniel Hawthorne Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. Alphonse de Lamartine Honestly, I grew up with Disney. David Giuntoli For a woman, forty is torture, the end. Grace Kelly

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science

fiction I was reading in my very early teens. Iain Banks I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either. Sutton Foster I have my best ideas when I am alone. Leona Lewis I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me. Junior Seau One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid. Eddie Izzard You can only mentor somebody if they want to be. Phil Ramone I make film to make time pass. Jean-Luc Godard I'm letting no man handle my bank account. Hattie McDaniel T Rex could not run. Jack Horner

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them

get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors. Julia Stiles I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy. Niki Taylor Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? Frederick Carl Frieseke Same-sex marriage is not the future. Maggie Gallagher By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream. Robert Casey I do consider how I spend my time off carefully because I've got two kids. Aidan Gillen I'm totally human. Serena Williams He who sows hurry reaps indigestion. Robert Louis Stevenson I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting. Georg Baselitz Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. George Savile

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Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or

just private time with the hubby. We all have our moments where we run out of steam because we've given everything we've got to everyone else. Whoever decided that was a good thing? It's not. Everyone needs to refuel. Jada Pinkett Smith I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women. Bob Hoskins If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice. Robin S. Sharma The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply. James Surowiecki When it comes to letting people marry whomever they love, Mitt Romney says, 'No.' Julian Castro What's really fun is to write under different names. Tom Verlaine Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself...

Think of it: television producers joining with newspapers to tell stories. It's journalism of the

future. Advertising will follow the crowd - the 'crowd' being viewers and readers, of course, which could bring revenue back into journalism. Bill Kurtis I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue. Kevin Costner And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake. Sanford I. Weill I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it. Nancy Reagan Mothers are all slightly insane. J. D. Salinger To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. Wendell Berry I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. Rosa Parks These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly. Mark Lawrenson I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me. Ted Rall I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge. Adam Jones

I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one,

and the way I justified it is that... because I'm on TV, I shouldn't be eliminated from participating in what's going on in the world. But people are always like, 'I can't believe you're on a dating app!' Eric Stonestreet I think to eat cake is very good for us, but it's the size of the slice and how often you have it. Mary Berry I think most politicians have almost no understanding of economics; otherwise, they wouldn't have become politicians. Roger Ver It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of myself. In the past, it was trying to make up for a bad game and thinking ahead and what do I have to do to fix this. Jason Hammel The U.S. is not a claimant state in the South China Sea or in the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku Islands. But, of course, the 7th Fleet has been a presence in the region since the Second World War, and it is the most powerful fleet in the region. Lee Hsien Lo...

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic,

so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place. Neil Patrick Harris The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves. Louis Leakey Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent. Jared Sparks I honestly, sincerely love what I do. Mary Hart I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. Mike Myers We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has. Clint Eastwood George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement. Paul McCartney I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear. Florynce Kennedy I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to a...

Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog

or not? The blog doesn't lie. Nick Denton My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy. James Lafferty I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that. Brian Wilson I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats. Chad Smith I think the blues will always be around. People need it. Johnny Winter Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. Paul Ricoeur Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life. Vikram Chatwal Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk. Dean Karnazes I mean, yeah, I want to lose some weight! I'm doing the best I can. Billy Gardell I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of

a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing. Muddy Waters I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure. Herb Alpert How can you not like Britney Spears? Lindsay Lohan It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. Man Ray Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. Robert J. Ringer And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going. Richard Marx I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me. Patrick Dempsey The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks. Charles de Gaulle

My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over

Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?' Adam McKay I don't have to try to be perfect because I know that my fans like me for who I am. They like me because I am weird and kind of funky, but still really calm. Bella Thorne It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children. Alan Alda There was a time when cowboys respected their horses instead of riding them to death just to show off for a crowd. Tommy Lee My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec. John W. Thompson Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning. Jared Gilman The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is something that is very close to...

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked

me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators. Pat Conroy I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades. Tyler Hilton One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important. Robert Zoellick Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Administration, Tennesseans have tightened their belts and are struggling to find jobs that will enable them to support their families. Marsha Blackburn I like a challenge. The fact that these are secret organizations, and also very important organizations that can engage in abuses that are so important to our national security - all that attracts me. Ronald Kessler I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Fede...

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to

control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once. Helen Frankenthaler I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes. Natasha Henstridge In film, I find it very useful always to do some preparation before you start rehearsals or start shooting, because there's so much that's against you on a film set. Ben Whishaw Even at my peak, I never went too over the top. Pauly Shore I'm the quiet bass player. Colin Hanks When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself. George Lopez A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do. Elia Kazan I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. Margaret Fuller To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil. Manu Bennett I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. Rufus Wainwright

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called

eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away. Joshua Foer One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday. Paul Dano In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe. Aravind Adiga I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images. Michael Haneke Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way. Stanley Tucci There's no doubt I'm emotional. Sidney Crosby Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. Francis Picabia I can only be who I am. Enya The South African government, unlike a lot of ...