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To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel

completely left in the back... abandoned. Bernardo Bertolucci I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever. Zoe Saldana Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot. Jensen Ackles In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success. Reed Hastings I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year. Jeffrey Archer Being honest with the public is how they respect you. Angel Haze If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers. Norman Granz I've got two families. Merle Haggard You always have to work to become a better singer, songwriter and performer. Luke Bryan Excellence always sells. Earl Nightingale

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots

and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Alan Rickman There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people. Geoff Mulgan Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time. Sugata Mitra Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding. Steven Moffat In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again. Peabo Bryson Painting is a coalescing of experience. Richard Phillips To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong. Nichol...

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim.

Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy. Vivienne Westwood So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are. Tony Campolo I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice. Carrot Top Life is beautiful but people are crazy. Charles Osgood The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial. Larry David When I read, I'm purely a reader. Anne Tyler By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show. Samuel Johnson I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture. Christine Baranski I've always lived in a city. Ana Gasteyer Swing will never sound as good as it did in the '40s. Trey Anastasio

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school.

I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant. Allison Williams Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war. William Lyon Mackenzie King I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that. Calvin Klein Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. William Wycherley A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. Willard Van Orman Quine Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. Herbert Hoover Why do you knock yourself out? Take it easy. David O. Selznick Education is the art of making man ethical. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel My gay audience has been with me fro...

The Lisa Loeb Eyewear line was created to satisfy all of those people who always

stop me and ask me where I get my glasses because they want some just like mine! Lisa Loeb Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company. Mark Millar I don't mind my eyebrows. They add... something to me. I wouldn't say they were my best feature, though. People tell me they like my eyes. They distract from the eyebrows. Nicholas Hoult It taught me something. It taught you your craft. Billy Eckstine I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough. will.i.am In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind. Richard Gere I remember seeing the movie 'To Sir With Love' when I was a little girl. Chaka Khan You have to test your ideas in a public forum. Hillary Clinton If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. Nikita Khrushchev I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamenta...

I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve,

but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts. Sebastian Junger I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?' Wil Wheaton So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig. John Hanning Speke Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say! Roger Moore Everything happens for a reason. Britney Spears Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s. Clifford Stoll We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment. Wangari Maathai I wish I could do everything in 3D. Martin Scorsese I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me. Rafael Nadal I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can. R. Lee Ermey

Right now I'm looking at a liger out my bedroom window. He's half lion and

half tiger. And he's absolutely beautiful. His name is Patrick. Tippi Hedren But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know? Jeanne Tripplehorn One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted. Harrison Ford I don't want people to remember me going through the motions. Bobby Rahal All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. Gore Vidal All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds. Paul Merton Fitzgerald was a modernist. Baz Luhrmann Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. William Dean Howells I could hav...

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves

us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. Wilhelm Wundt Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on. Chris Cooper I used Evernote almost exclusively for researching 'The 4-Hour Body.' I was able to eliminate all of the perpetually open tabs and multiple bookmarking services. It's also all automatically backed up to Evernote, which gives me peace of mind. Tim Ferriss Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet? Beah Richards We're far from perfect. It's a human enterprise. Bob Schieffer I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships. Tommy Rettig There's nothing wrong with things taking time. James Dyson I never approach a character from a negative place. Nina Arianda I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre. Joyce DiDonato The more su...

As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence

of President Barack Obama's snowblowers in the media. See no scandal, hear no scandal, speak no scandal. Michelle Malkin The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.' Shane Smith If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship. Jaron Lanier You don't buy a Picasso because you love the frame. Joss Whedon Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm. Kathryn Bigelow I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women. Oscar de la Renta I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again. Alfonso Cuaron So, I got a lot of recruitment letters from track. Bo Jackson If Scotland and A...

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many

people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system. Ron Kind I enjoy seeing new places. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work. Roy Ayers I need to be able to rock out. Bryan Adams Reality TV is anything but. James Dyson My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career. Paul Nurse Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal. Dweezil Zappa If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular. Catherine McCormack If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. George Savile I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better. Parker Stevenson

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed

in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama. Joanna Lumley I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds. Dakota Fanning Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. Oliver Herford I haven't gone home with anybody who tried to pick me up in a long time. Jorja Fox Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing. Bill Lipinski I hate being called spoilt. My life is ordinary. Peaches Geldof It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant. Sargent Shriver Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not? Luciano Pavarotti Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life. Art Blakey And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy. Todd Barry

I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I

just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it. Sam Raimi They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick. Mike Quade 'Haywire' is full of different kinds of love songs. It's definitely country and a little something for everybody. I feel like the subject matter goes a little deeper about love and relationships. Josh Turner My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. Jessica Sanchez Make-up is an extension of your clothes. Naomie Harris I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me. Sidney Poitier Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too. Micky Dolenz I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always. James Levine I won't eat in a place that h...

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go,

and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed. Prince Andrew I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology. Roseanne Barr My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic. Jane Horrocks To say what your disguise is would be foolish. John McAfee I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others. Sidney Sheldon A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand. Patti Page Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. Nathalie Sarraute The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that. Gil Scott-Heron...

There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie

and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people. Tom Hardy But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. Gottfried Leibniz I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? John Mellencamp To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted. Shia LaBeouf I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans. Bobby Darin But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. Larry Niven I would never ever talk about my own personal life in an interview. Ross Kemp I only eat one meal a day. Lunch, not dinner. Robert Goulet A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring. William Congreve I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now. Skitch Henderson

This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot

of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions. Otto Schily The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity. Huston Smith I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless. Leonard Baskin I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process. Matthew McConaughey I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more. Chloe Grace Moretz You can't borrow your way to prosperity. Terry Branstad I've always been very visceral in that I feel things very deeply. P. J. Harvey Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance. Michael Tippett When I rememb...

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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, ...