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Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the

swindler and the swindled have in common. Mitchell Zuckoff Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. James Geary My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New School. My mother did proofreading and typing and stuff or her, and as part of her payment, I was able to take acting classes there on Saturdays when I was 10. Robert De Niro When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself. Lee DeWyze Gwen and I have four children and ten grandchildren. David Wilkerson Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. Kenzo Tange I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are. Christina Ricci The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it. Zane Grey If I could have the discipline to be super-skinny, I would be. Lara Stone I embrace country music because of love, a love of wha...
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I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by

Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line. Maximilian Schell Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers. Frederick Reines Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. Constantin Brancusi I'm against people downloading music. Noel Gallagher The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them. Eric Bana The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn. Thomas Menino I try to stay focused on my creativity. Christina Aguilera The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough? William Morris A zebra does not change its spots. Al Gore Life is one long struggl...
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What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're

the heavyweight champion of the world? Rocky Marciano I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star. Kid Rock Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever. Zadie Smith I'm not a Twinkie lover. I don't do sugar or dairy either. Woody Harrelson All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved. Norman Wisdom TV is my first love and I haven't disappeared from it totally. Daisy Fuentes Whenever you move, I think you lose your history. Calista Flockhart We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. Confucius If you think you have it tough, read history books. Bill Maher A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. Aldous Huxley
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I had no idea what it took to be an actor. Then all of a

sudden I found myself cast in a TV drama. The director was very harsh with me. One time, he told me this would be my first and last acting job. I seriously thought that acting was not the right career for me. Lee Byung-hun Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold? Shirley Booth When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind. will.i.am I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth. Suze Orman Let's just say I believe in healthy love. Jillian Michaels Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. Anselm Kiefer I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer. Georg Brandes Seeing the family is a very...
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I am not interested in anything that doesn't have a genuine heart to it. You've

got to have soul in the hole. If that isn't there, I don't see the point. Nick Cave I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. Anita Diament Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director. Tom Skerritt A busybody's work is never done. A. N. Wilson I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up. Nigel Farage The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything. Jerry Brown Our parents were musicians. Caroline Corr I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick. Wentworth Miller I'm a Red-baiter...
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I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy

of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award. Lester B. Pearson As the only girl growing up among three brothers, I was always afraid of being excluded. If there was a game to be played, a sport to be learned, a competition to join, I was on my feet and ready. I didn't spend much time alone for fear that I'd miss out. Elisabeth Shue More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. Kofi Annan Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich. Samuel Johnson Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me. Rachel Stevens Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for. Katey Sagal We're not going to find a magic cure for cancer. We've got to prevent it. Joel Fuhrman When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles. Aasif Mand...
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their

sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly. Ben Carson Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day. Steve Jobs Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes. Alton Brown I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me. Dave Lombardo I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life. Yogi Berra I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. Eric Clapton To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away. Maya Rudolph The elite isn't leading anymore. It's tr...
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Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed

will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off. Franklin Raines Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions. David Miliband When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them. Penelope Spheeris I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women. Jenni Rivera I guess in general, people tend to not eat the cute animals. Elayne Boosler If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine. William H. Gass America, I appreciate you liking me. Dave Chappelle I've never taken myself too seriously, I'm not into that. Jonny Lee Miller I will always love to perform standup comedy. ...
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I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to

let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change. Sheryl Sandberg We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. Jane Fonda I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while. Steve Carell An actor's life is fairly lonely. Melissa Leo I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments. Jana Novotna I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit. James Van Der Beek Those who go along get along. Sam Snead All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline. Lauren Graham We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense. Nan Hayworth I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it. Buffy Sainte-Marie
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When you're acting and you need to cry, you want to put yourself in a

position where you're trying not to cry, because that is generally what people try and do. They try to hold on to their emotions, they don't want to lose them. Jared Harris China will be the answer to Japan's problems. Carlos Ghosn My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood. Michael Franti If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy. Ian Mcewan Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. Paul Tillich Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth. Lara Stone 'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around. J Mascis Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ. Haile Selassie I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man. Val Kilmer A great chef is an artist that I truly respect. Robert Stack
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Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place.

To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release. James Taylor They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand! America Ferrera To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films. Marjane Satrapi I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young. Maurice Sendak But You never reject a repentant and humble heart. Alphonsus Liguori I think we are a product of all our experiences. Sanford I. Weill See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself. Thomas More It's human nature to want to be with other people. Zoe Lister-Jones I am not ready to back away from my views. Alexei Navalny My definition of a good hotel is a place I'd stay at. Rob...
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It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do

before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R. Steven Adler Anything that can create balance in dogs is great. If veterinarians can give you the solution and give you why this is causing the behavior, of course. Anything that is good for an animal, let's do it. Cesar Millan When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way. Tracy Pollan The whole system of society tells you what to do. Barry White There's a pace in TV I like. Jerry Orbach When I came up, guys like Nicholson and DeNiro were held in highest regard. Peter Gallagher In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion. Albert Camus I was a smart kid, but I hated school. Eminem Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different. Marion Cotillard We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive

technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic. Marco Tempest I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults. Grace Jones Typically my ideas come to me in the most inane ways possible. I had the initial idea for 'Quantum Conundrum' while I was walking down the street to get breakfast. People are like, 'Whoa, what's your inspiration, is it something amazing?' No, I was just really hungry. Kim Swift My exploits are nothing now to the average person. David Bailey A boy's best friend is his mother. Joseph Stefano One cannot have economic growth without security. John Bruton From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative. Grimes Well, I'm a Harley Babe. Laura Schlessinger I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music. Katey Sag...
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We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We

don't have any real sense of community anymore. Alan Ball What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. Philip Zimbardo Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook. Billy Corgan I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet. Amy Lee The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side. Peace Pilgrim I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way. Elizabeth Edwards I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists. Jack Chick I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it. Irrfan Khan My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score. Harvey Mackay Success is a great deodorant. Elizabeth Taylor
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BUT, in terms of attractiveness, speaking in terms of physical aspects only I think that

Argentinean, Italian, Mexican, and Spanish men are among the most attractive men. Alicia Machado I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq. John Bolton I want to be Jacques Pepin. I want to have a nice 50-, 60-year career. I want to be on PBS when I'm 70-something, still kicking it, having a great time, showing up in Aspen to sign cookbooks. I just want to have a nice, big, long career. Tyler Florence Fashion fades, only style remains the same. Coco Chanel Smiles form the channels of a future tear. Lord Byron I never thought about being an actor. Danny Glover Writers always know whether you like them or not. Leslie Fiedler I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists. Craig McCracken The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. William James Even when you are not playing you are holding me back. Eugene Ormandy
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain

in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.' Alan Alda But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. Paul Bettany If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today. Steven Weber I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. Peter Ustinov I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. Jack Paar Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. Imre Lakatos My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro. Brandi Carlile Every em...
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I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle,

and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. Jules Verne What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food. Carla Hall I don't want the big flashing lights and red carpet, like, 'Here comes another Bon Iver album!' I just want it to be my bedroom-y thing. But that'll take a while to figure out. Justin Vernon The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. Alvar Aalto I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. Renzo Piano ...
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My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh

and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was! Lynn Johnston Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for. Charles Jencks I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. Paul Lynde At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart. Ben E. King The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures. John Woolman My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever. Lee Child My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come...
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I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the

series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' Terry Pratchett So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body. Annabelle Selldorf The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. Julia Ward Howe I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me. Lawrence Welk Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. Adriana Lima As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it. Nuno Bettencourt I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big d...
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In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are

supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. George Will Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor. Bill Scott You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. Shirley Chisholm Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing. Dick Cavett If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. Lou Holtz I feel that my whole life is a contribution. Pete Seeger Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems. Gil Kane
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I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to

the grocery store if I could. I'm a huge fan of Chanel and Versace, and I actually have always dreamed of designing my own line one day. Ksenia Solo History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from. Jill Lepore Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger. Craig Brown It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.' Susan Barker I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there...
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If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life

more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is. Sandra Day O'Connor Barack wants to stop all children from working on the farm... Can you imagine this? I just, I can't fathom that. Did you ever think we'd grow up in America and see something like that? Let me take it one step further. He wants to disallow the 4-H from training children to work on a farm. John Raese People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights. Jeffrey Bewkes I was not created to be occupied by eating delicious foods like tied up cattle. Ali ibn Abi Talib Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi. Hans Haacke Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes ...
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I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their

daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious. Alanis Morissette You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Deepak Chopra Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll. Bobby Hatfield Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it. Douglas MacArthur It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something. Damien Hirst I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, ...
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I wanted to appeal to people who've never really listened to hip-hop or really given

it a chance before. I've also tried to incorporate all my favorite lifestyle things in the music. Of course, 'Fashion Killa' is one of peoples' favorites because it just expresses how much I like fashion. ASAP Rocky I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it. Martha Wainwright Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate. Larry Kramer Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. Marcus Tullius Cicero People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood. Zoe Saldana To go to war, you must always think of, can you win? John Dingell There is something so biologically i...
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I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no

 problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery. Lionel Shriver I always wanted to write a book. Not a romance novel. Maybe a crime thriller. Something with action. Maybe that will happen some day. Becky Sauerbrunn I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker. Olga Fonda I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.' Ross Butler The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious. John Lithgow The Corbynista brand of politics representing metropolitan, middle class, pro-open border values is far removed from millions of Labour voters, especially those who voted Leave in the referendum. Nigel Farage What comes into...
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