it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get for paying those high taxes is, if you're a parent thinking about putting your child through school, you don't have to worry about it, because all education through college is free. Dan Buettner I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them. Peter Greenaway Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears. Julianna Baggott I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live. Daniel Berrigan I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act. Clay Aiken It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing. James Schuyler With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential. Julius Erving It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Godfrey Reggio I've always loved Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness movies. Mark Hamill But if I played well and...

look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate. James McAvoy So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people. Camryn Manheim In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. Rudolf Arnheim Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction. Marc Ribot Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them. Stephenie Meyer You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth. Wayne Newton I like having a routine, because everything else... is so unpredictable. Jordana Brewster Everythi...

those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: 'That must be nice.' Beth Ditto I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context. Alexander Wang I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind. Anton Yelchin I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel. Armistead Maupin I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora. Robert Ballard When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way? Aubrey O'Day You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force. Jim Hightower Only in the most unusual cases i...

knighthood was historically for what was termed 'the establishment.' Now, this is an accolade for somebody who comes from a working-class background. Someone whose father was a truck driver and decided to buy a truck. Lindsay Fox You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about. Ralph Fiennes No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat. Thomas Friedman As corny as it may sound, my true goal was to crack the Americana market. Arthur Godfrey I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. Joni Mitchell I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'. Dave Eggers Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world. Marion Ross A work-only zone does wonders for your productivity. So, I prefer working at the office now. I spend 8 focused hours there, then I go home to be present wit...

like pineapple, particularly because of the enzymes that it has. Sometimes I have oatmeal. But if I'm feeling like I really want to be watching my weight more, then I definitely do a protein, like an omelet, scrambled eggs or some smoked salmon. Cynthia Nixon If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving. Sarah Dessen You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example. Christian Dior The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain. Lena Dunham Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. Paul J. Meyer I want to come across as a positive person. Greta Scacchi It's a hard job to become president. Rick Scott I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book. Mohsin Hamid When you have the opportunity, you strike. Rod Laver The full potential of ...

enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception. Stacy Schiff I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new. Jada Pinkett Smith It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down. Jon Tester There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes. Paula Deen Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998. Robert MacNeil I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to b...

and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. William Hague A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics. Peter Jennings Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. Ani DiFranco What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays. Bill Janklow I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.' Milo Ventimiglia I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied. Shane Koycz...

own style and it helps me to relate to the music as I'm going to play it. I just write. And if it comes out country, it's a country song. The funny thing is, I write all across the board. I just write what hits me at the time. Casey James No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear. Aaron Brown I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely. Billy Burke A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle. Linda M. Godwin Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders. Francesca Annis I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability. Prince Charles I always like earthy, authentic sounds. Nneka I think having children is th...

One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do. Mattie Stepanek My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children. Richard Rogers Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact. Jo Nesbo I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough. Amy Smart Palestinian people are in love with life. Mahmoud Darwish Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny. Alfred A. Montapert No one...

the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the result is not what the work is about. There are other people whose jobs are to focus on those results and maximize them, and that's great. Let them do their job. Alan Ball All who love are conspirators. George Weinberg It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more. Bashar al-Assad I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet. Ruby Wax It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s. Renny Harlin I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy. Sebastian Bach These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do al...

1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team. J. C. Watts It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men. Thucydides I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes. Benmont Tench I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them. Larry David I have a very close friendship with the skaters. Eric Heiden I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself. Jim Carrey That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople. Jim Fowler When we dream alone it is only a dream, ...

an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that. Tavi Gevinson I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. Theodore Bikel The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side. Matt Czuchry The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period. Oriana Fallaci I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible. John Mayer There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it. Ice Cube The contemporary Ameri...

office way back in 1982, which is a few years ago. I always tried to do what I believed is right and I've always voted the way that I believe was the right way for my constituency, and that's what I'm doing when I govern. So, I'm the same Jan Brewer. Jan Brewer A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended. Evan Esar Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on. Camryn Manheim When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins. Donald Johanson Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters. Willie Stargell However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. Garrett Hardin The Japane...

a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy. James Surowiecki Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. Camille Paglia I took my writing seriously, and it seemed to pay off. Samuel R. Delany I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services. George Osborne It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. Nigel Farage It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Zbigniew Brzezinski Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts. Shaun White The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. Clara Zetkin I mean, I don't reall...

wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read. Mariska Hargitay One of the things I love about music is live performance. Yo-Yo Ma But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing. Andy Hertzfeld I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job. Mickey Rourke Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words. Tim O'Brien I like to think that I have no single view nor any single situation ...