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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for

so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world. Lana Del Rey The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder. Lawrence Hargrave Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward. Elyn Saks I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure. Wayne McGregor Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims. Billy Tauzin I am in discussions with a label. We are talking about doing something. Freddie Hubbard I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. Edvard Munch So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel. Mordechai Vanunu Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And ...

In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the

themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants. Daniel H. Wilson Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them. Hal Holbrook My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested. Ben Saunders When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show. Jessica Savitch Not exactly hit them, but I've restrained a few people. Chuck Zito Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is. Hans Urs von Balthasar If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. Jackie Mason One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. Karl Wilhelm ...

History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private

sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy. Victor Davis Hanson As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal record. The attack they have launched against Mitt Romney shows just how worried they are about facing him in the general election. Jeb Bradley Ramen is a dish that's very high in calories and sodium. One way to make it slightly healthier is to leave the soup and just eat the noodles. Masaharu Morimoto I'm a huge, huge believer in love. Huge! Chris O'Dowd I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end. Cecelia Ahern I'm not rich, though everybody thinks I am. Emma Forrest When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment. Joaquin Phoenix I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened. Leon Panetta I've read the 'Mortal Instru...

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got

to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise. LeVar Burton The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills. Robert McChesney I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love. Enid Blyton If there's one thing I can't stand, it's not being noticed. Steve Sabol I think the American people in many cases want to transform our energy system. Bernie Sanders Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion. Gary Wolf Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal. Bubba Watson Every lover is a soldier. Ovid To a certain extent I suppose a...

When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets

at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie. Gayle King When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever. David Sanborn Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five. Jurgen Klinsmann As you get older, you look at things differently. Brett Favre Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant. Andrew Dominik First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned. Lawrence Taylor I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid. Sara Bareilles If it's too fashiony, it's not interesting to me. Jean Paul Gaultier Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. Herbert Spencer As a rule, one should never place form over content. Manuel Puig

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would

take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds. Garet Garrett I love Twitter. My favorite thing to do these days is to tweet things that seem very questionable as to whether I'm joking or not. Max Greenfield It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again. Brian Harvey Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. E. M. Forster The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living. Harry Bertoia We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work. Kevin Kelly I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games. Charlaine Harris Don't get in my personal life. Timbaland I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times. Mark Messier I'm all for same-sex marriage. Tori Spelling

Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are

going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that. Trent Reznor I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. Steven Spielberg There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. Jean de la Bruyere Everything I own has some significance to me. Dylan Lauren I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. Elia Kazan Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age. Bjork Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces! Georg Buchner Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid. Jenny Holzer When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down. will.i.am No one saw the recession coming. Gordon Ramsay

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures

in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate. Bob Edwards Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair. Freddy Fender Sarah Michelle Gellar's made some really good choices. She's had some bad breaks. She goes with the independent, interesting young filmmakers and then they get slammed, like 'Southland Tales.' I'm proud of what she's trying to do. It's hard. Joss Whedon You have to develop a very thick skin. Gabrielle Union Courage is action, not talk. Jeff Rich When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food. Phil Collins We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about. Sonia Braga Films are just consumables. Kristin Scott Thomas I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor. Sophia Bush I wouldn't mind doing a s...

Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal

opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. Jurgen Habermas Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.' Ernestine Rose I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up. Teri Hatcher Hidden nature is secret God. Sri Aurobindo I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously. Alison Doody Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. Evan Esar Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. William Feather Charm is a product of the unexpected. Jose Marti I've always followed the rul...

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own

films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made. Alexander Payne I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'. Devon Werkheiser There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas. Michelle Bachelet I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality. Goldie Hawn God invented concubinage, satan marriage. Francis Picabia It's unfortunate that music has become such big business. Rosanna Arquette I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it. Ellen Burstyn We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does. Mary Gordon I'm against spending money to record. Grimes I think people conn...

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that

I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy. Javier Bardem On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. Jean-Francois Lyotard Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. Mario Batali Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael. Cynthia Payne I also think that I had great mechanics. Dennis Eckersley Teens find out a lot from other teens. Ally Condie I won't do something just for the sake of working. Juliette Binoche I'm a little young for retirement. Joni Mitchell You can talk good ideas out of existence...

I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and

that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star. Jason Mewes Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me. Larry David I have a special child and there are not a lot of services around for that special child, and so we picked out a school that would be a very good school for her. John Raese I'm not a Democrat. Aaron McGruder I think all of us create our own miracles. Michael Landon Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. Vincent Van Gogh I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight. Jason Gann Casey was the better team and the better team won. Bill Evans This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at. Gary Larson I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies. Patrick Dempsey

When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible

for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. Jesse Ventura I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter. Katey Sagal So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music. Joseph Jarman It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing. Kathy Najimy Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure. Jonathan Coleman I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. Elia Kazan I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much. Stan Getz Actors enjoy being treated as ordinary people. Tom Hooper A true initiation never ends. Robert Anton Wilson I took my time to find the perfect girl. Joe Namath

FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through

our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal. Sepp Blatter It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling. Shania Twain Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. Benedict Cumberbatch Almost any game with any ball is a good game. Robert Staughton Lynd I am not into fashion. I just like being able to buy my mates dinner. James Blunt We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab. Kristin Hersh You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there. Haley Joel Osment I probably seem like not a particularly nice person, not a girl's girl. Sienna Miller I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection. Alex Pettyfer People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits. Rick Wakeman

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an

instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curriculum. Spike Lee I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore. Courteney Cox I'm playing 10 feet from Mike Campbell every night. I look across the stage, there's Howie. Tom's in the middle and we're playing all this stuff I love. It's great. Benmont Tench In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl. Zoe Lister-Jones On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. Victoria Abril I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really. Anthony Hopkins I expected to go into journalism or law. Chri...

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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy,

territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel. Natan Sharansky The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. Michel de Montaigne You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes. Daniel Clowes In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God. Sun Myung Moon So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' Tommy Cooper If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there coul...