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For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw

a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more. Richard Masur It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done. John Mica The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. Thomas Malthus The first step in good reporting is good snooping. Matt Drudge The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances. Steve Buscemi I've always been a big reader. Stewart O'Nan It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. Stone Gossard There is no future for me as a closing pitcher. Danny McBride Blessed are the blin...

I was brought up to express myself only when asked to express myself, and then

to do so in a way that's pleasing to hear. But I've always had a need to make my presence known. I was just sort of born that way, I guess. It's my natural tendency. Patty Griffin I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. Brian Eno I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar. Sam Rockwell I followed the war wherever I could reach it. Martha Gellhorn As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact. Natalia Vodianova It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it. Ang Lee I have always had a relationship with clothes. Phillip Lim Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. Michael Reagan I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire. Sara Blakely I am a football fan, yeah. Joe Namath

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth

is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people. Paula Deen I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us. Sarah Michelle Gellar I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years. Neil Peart Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch. Jason Patric That's where the money is, on the road. Aries Spears In business it's about people. It's about relationships. Kathy Ireland I don't think I ever really got interested in theater. Eartha Kitt I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did. Little Richard Unempl...

The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing

with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays. John Hersey The Royal Family have always had an interest in a number of different areas of society. We are a part of society. Prince Andrew I think we have to be not so afraid of scarcity. We have to be willing to give away all things. Sharon Stone By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. Lurlene McDaniel Give the lady what she wants! Marshall Field The last three films I've done are about self-immolation. Claire Forlani It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing. Ray Comfort It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody. Abdullah II of Jordan Coaches will eventually notice a great attitude, and they respect that. Heather O'Reilly Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. Candice Bergen

The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said

very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason. Ted Danson My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it. Candace Cameron Bure Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. William Howard Taft So, there's only so much you can do with a rock video. Melissa Auf der Maur Really the team often will take on the personality of its coach. Mark Messier I'm the kind of guy that I never forget my teammates. David Ortiz At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter. Luke Ford Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music. Bruce Springsteen The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home. Fareed Zakaria We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. George Henry Lewes

Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and

test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago. Eric Liu What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course. Marilyn Monroe I was given a horn at an early age. I never really got a chance to think about doing anything else until I was about 18, when I realized I could do something else if I wanted to. In my teens, I was rolling in it. Trombone Shorty I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. Daniel Day-Lewis I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous. Shaun White I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do. Jennifer Jason Leigh One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class. Scott Walker I'm not the most patient of people. Kobe Bryant Having loved sport my whole life, competing in a Paralympics would be a dream come true. Heather Mills Film is an itch I have yet to scratch. Lea Michele

I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your

career going into your 50s. Elizabeth McGovern Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer. Antonio Perez I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do. Bryan Clay Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. John Milton The hankering of the mind is irresistible. Adam Weishaupt My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things. Adam Savage We are servants rather than masters in mathematics. Charles Hermite I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not. Macaulay Culkin Reality TV rots people's brains. Georgia Jagger I think the word rich is all relative. Joel Osteen

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a

flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people. Connie Nielsen I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans. Mark Zandi This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. Stanford Moore President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. Clint Eastwood I like to discover new things, and I'm always testing new apps. Francois-Henri Pinault Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are. Alastair Campbell I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect. Sandra Bullock Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention. Ninon de L'Enclos Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that...

I don't mind saying, you know, that I don't take a salary from the church,

and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. Joel Osteen I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military. Robert Jay Lifton I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest. Florynce Kennedy My father was a very difficult man. Sade Adu Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure. Parker Palmer For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. John Webster I know a lot about Jewish comedians. Dana Snyder If I would rescue one of my movies, it would be 'A Little Princess.' Alfonso Cuaron The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. Friedrich Nietzsche My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food. M. Ward

It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when

punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen. Penelope Spheeris You learn more doing than doing training. Ian Hart Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket. Lee Trevino I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world. Roddy Doyle You don't go into politics unless you want to win. Rand Paul There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway. Paul McCartney Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie. Marc Andreessen You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it. Gabrielle Reece We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism. Nawal El Saadawi I'm an independent type. No one tells me what to do. Greta Van Susteren

Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a

scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it. Jack Youngblood At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. Martin Luther King, Jr. It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media. Chuck Klosterman I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics. Harvey Korman When I die there is nobody to take my place. Keith Haring I never invite idiots to my house. Elizabeth Montagu Sometimes divorce is better than marriage. Sumner Redstone Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school. Alanis Morissette I don't want any man to have control over me. Sinead O'Connor I like both movies and TV, so I don't have some big grand plan. Molly Shannon

Limp Bizkit is my main priority, but my side project, Black Light Burns, is still

a labor of love. We have a record written, so we'll see when that comes out. When we tour, we go out in a van and trailer with me driving. Wes Borland 'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever. Mark Burnett I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone. Bill Nighy My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him. Ang Lee I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. China Mieville I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer. Matthew McConaughey Already people are saying we do need a change. George Papandreou Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object. Plotinus I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people. Gina Carano I have nothing to do with counting the votes. Kenneth Blackwell

As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that

the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade. Donald Evans While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together. Kenneth G. Wilson I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay. David Hockney You want to try to find your heritage. Reese Hoffa I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet. Gillian Anderson It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point. Eberhard Weber We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies. David Korten Series work is just grueling. Robert Urich You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. Maxwell Maltz Laughing brains are more absorbent. Alton Brown

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to

everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would. Amber Benson I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker. David Miliband I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others. Barry White You know, I do not know, I just want to date someone who makes me happy. Caprice Bourret I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them. Syd Barrett Follow your passion. Joel Siegel I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through. Jamie Kennedy Our message of the day is service does not need a title. Carl Lewis Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. Gene Tierney I was a drummer and I played the guitar....

There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an

easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, 'That's not gonna make me happy.' Chris Robinson There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan. Leon Panetta There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large. Jack Kemp Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it. Sharon Salzberg I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years. Gabrielle Union You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation. Alexandra Patsavas I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them. Freema Agyeman You can't quantify everything a player does to win games. Derek Jeter I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must. Mohnish Pabrai Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find. Greg Kinnear

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The most important thing in imaging for me is the dynamic range. The dynamic range

means the tones that you can capture from highlights to dark and the bits, the depth of color that you can capture. Emmanuel Lubezki The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart. Joel Salatin If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things. Ben Wheatley We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them. Peter Benchley It's true, I used to be so shy. I used to never talk, just sit back and do my thing. I was never bullied, though, and it was never like it was something that needed to be 'fixed', like being shy is a bad thing. Kendall Jenner One of my favorite films is 'Late Spring' by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art. Michael Arndt 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John L...

In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field,

one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. Richard P. Feynman Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal. Bill Dedman As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools. Joe Bastianich A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. David A. Bednar I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options. Rashid Johnson Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first. Warren Ellis I have never been the mousy, stand-two-paces-behind, obedient 'little w...

I'm the kind of person who likes to hang out and observe what's going on

in the streets, or in certain places. I used to do that a lot. But having to become an international superstar, I can't do that comfortably! But it's all positive, you know. Jimmy Cliff Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good. Pope Benedict XVI I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. That was it. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman. Alice Waters The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell. Juicy J I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous....

I absolutely love 'Four In A Bed.' Before I started filming, and I was unemployed,

it was the focus of my day. Four B&B owners go to each other's B&Bs, have a meal and stay over, and then pay what they think the room was worth. At the end of the week, they sit down together and open each other's envelopes, and they all start rowing. Kimberley Nixon I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false - because hope is the nub of what we are. Richard Flanagan When you have so many things, and you have no idea why, you think, 'Maybe I'm supposed to do things for other people.' Nikki Sixx My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me. Aerin Lauder We have people in our lives who help us evolve along the way. If you're lucky, you find someone who evolves along with you, and that's what you call a long-term relationship. Richard LaGravenese Carl Icahn, corporate raider by trade, is creativ...

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors,

agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity. Terry Waite I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. Robert Louis Stevenson The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Mark Twain A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. Charles Baudelaire The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. George Santayana I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed. Lionel Barrymore She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one. Peter Bergman

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its

sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you. Salman Rushdie I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young. Dan Byrd The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. Stephen Hawking It's all about having fun and shooting something that you like. Where it goes afterwards is up to the movie gods. Devon Bostick I do see an interest in writing for Twitter. Lydia Davis I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway. Taylor Swift Those scenes on the beach on 'Lost' were so much fun. ...

To be honest, there are so many things I learned in acting school beyond the

method; it was a safe place to practice. So acting school was about exercising that acting muscle and doing it every single day - and having people tell you that you're bad every single day! Which pushes you to work even harder. Jane Levy I gave up writing for seven years (very biblical) and picked it up again, still clueless and still seeking the exotic, when I was twenty-one. David Bergen I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups. Rafael Nadal Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised. Ameen Rihani Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove. Willie Nelson I was never in the bu...

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of

a career that both delight me and seem to please the public. Michael Palin I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like. Bat for Lashes We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally. Joyce Carol Oates I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars. Amanda Lindhout Women's sport is genuine, it's pure and it's raw... we don't do it for the money. Jessica Fox I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more. Nolan Gould We want to protect freedom of speech, but it is not unlimited freedom of speech. There has always been rules around defamation, slander and libel, and in Victoria, we have effective rules on racial and relig...

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that

confidence that you are the best out there at all times. Keyshawn Johnson For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you. Halsey I was offered the opportunity to narrate the Catholic bible, and it was something I really wanted to be involved with. John Rhys-Davies If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound. Mohamed El-Erian Offset and Skillfeed are examples of products launched in 2013 that have expanded our opportunity with both large enterprises and across new content types. Jon Oringer Most music careers slowly but surely go down. Malik Bendjelloul Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer. Jeaniene F...

I'm not from that world where you get on your feet and somebody gives you

a suggestion and you improv your way through things. Kevin Dunn Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype. Alice McDermott Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house. Denis Leary Error is part of the game. I never, ever second-guessed myself on a call and don't believe good umpires ever should. Doug Harvey Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading. Matt Mullenweg The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to. Marianne Williamson I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world. David Sanborn Tons of comedians have said, ...