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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is

less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers. Ina May Gaskin Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of. Robyn Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction. Tom Jenkinson I am very fired up to run in New York. Dayron Robles Yes, I've already done a couple of guest voices. Gary Cole Most photographers work best alone, myself included. Elliott Erwitt I always knew I wanted to run a business someday. Michael Dell There should be ...

On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid

in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger. Eddie Van Halen You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.' Cathy Rigby I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children. Moby I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic. Eli Roth I've got to have 25 balls in the air at the same time. Terry McAuliffe With my child, I hardly watch TV now. Lindsay Davenport I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents. Irving Paul Lazar God is not a franchise of the Republican Party. Dick Durbin I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything. Vikram Seth Animals interest me more tha...

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses,

where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. Meg Whitman Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth? Jeanne Moreau Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. Paul Ricoeur If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer? Ace Frehley It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld. Don Marquis Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100. William Greider It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it. Charlton Heston The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the pa...

Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre

is all about, he's a good man, he's this, he's that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that's you. It's one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don't feel what other people feel. Gary Sheffield One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea. Hank Haney When I started acting, I thought if I got one or two jobs a year I'd be lucky. So yeah, my career has gone so much farther than I ever suspected it would, and as such I feel lucky for everything I get. I feel thankful and grateful. James McAvoy Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you. Raoul Walsh Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up. Don Henley Right before Mag Seven I did a movie called The Bull Rider. Michael Biehn In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want? Roy H. Williams I have a hit TV show. Kim Kardashian I have ...

You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some

ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person. Benjamin Walker Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately. Jan Egeland You measure your people and you take action on those that don't measure up. Jack Welch When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem. Liam Neeson There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Like all other law-abiding Americans, I fully support legal immigration. Ted Nugent Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without. George Henry Lewes I collect things that just look retarded. Ahmet Zappa I've always wanted to be able to paint the dawn. David Hockney I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion. Ed Gillespie

I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when

they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me. Ed Helms Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes. Jeanne Moreau In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words. Bianca Jagger You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money. Felix Dennis In any case, you can't turn back the clock. Michel Patini If fans come up to me, I talk to them. Chester Bennington You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar A diary means yes indeed. Gertrude Stein I have disassociated myself from that book. Uta Hagen I don't know if you ever really feel like you've made it...

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion.

If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head. Alan Alda I mean a song that's specifically for the girls. It's saying you know we talk about them night and day, we're constantly pondering on men and what they've done good and what they've done bad and all these things in our lives. Willa Ford When you do a movie, you go to the location and get into your costume. It's part of your metamorphosis into your character, and it just made sense to do it. Charles Fleischer I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics. Courtney Love Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission. Joseph Sobran I still don't know precisely why The Mickey Mouse Club ended when it did. Annette Funicello The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters. Shawn Ashmore I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present. Garry Shandl...

I'm not thinking about me that much anymore. Every time I look, I'm looking for

my daughter, you know? If I'm in a store, I'm looking at baby clothes. It's so much cuter to find things for her than to find things for me. Alessandra Ambrosio I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it. George Grosz The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time. Anatoly Karpov Like most Latinas, I'm not afraid to speak my mind. Cristina Saralegui Mine is not an autonomous imagination. Jay McInerney Quitting doesn't enter my mind. Jimmy Buffett During the day I don't wear much makeup. Denise Richards I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Jack Nicholson It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. William...

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air

Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved. Melissa Bean I like big shows, a lot of volume and a lot of energy. I love electric instruments. But I do love mixing those with bluegrass instruments and cranking those up, too, with a little bit of that rock energy. Dierks Bentley Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing. Donald Glover I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much. Sarah Silverman Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free. Kirk Douglas Music comes from a place we don't know. Chris Martin I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people. Orson Scott Card No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying. Vash Young I have confidence in people's basic common sense. Dixie Lee Ray Free ente...

Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite

nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew. Ewan McGregor People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. Tori Amos Today's particle physics describe light as a crumple in space, and we may have deformed space in such a way that they noticed something peculiar - and they had the ability to investigate it. Dwight Schultz I don't like to go out in general. Courteney Cox Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife. Anne Northup I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view. Laura Bush I think that success is having fun. Bruno Mars Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated. Fred Schneider I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people. Dalai Lama 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that. Sam Neill

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without

making this a high priority. David Suzuki I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character. Maya Lin I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly. Anna Paquin A civil servant doesn't make jokes. Eugene Ionesco I'm a vocabulary nerd. Sam Trammell I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked. Adam Yauch But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated. Bob Cousy To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me. Boyd Rice Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone? Jonathan Carroll Today's business climate is not for me. Berry Gordy

I think somehow men understand other men's need for respect differently than they understand it

for a woman. I'm disappointed to have to say that, but I think it's undeniably true. Carly Fiorina Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it. Andre Agassi I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game. Patricia Richardson I didn't really chart things out, career-wise. Michael Mayer I love life. I love life to death. Emmanuelle Riva I think cable has been under-appreciated for its contribution to society. Brian Roberts When I write I find a quiet place. Lianne La Havas The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany. ...

It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be

more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense. Ornette Coleman The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades. Heather Brooke My grandparents live in Cley, and my dad now has the windmill which is a guest house. So I've spent much time up there, but a lot of it was at school as well, and my dad was sent abroad so often as well with the army. James Blunt I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box. Lionel Richie Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head? Wendy O. Williams I've been doing African dance all my life. Naima Adedapo But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it. Oliver Reed Mourning is not forbidden, you know. Simin Daneshvar The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physica...

I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so,

to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world. Lech Walesa I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from. Paul Feig I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche. Kevin O'Leary Without natural gifts technical rules are useless. Quintilian Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies. Anish Kapoor I'm nervous whenever I perform. Adele There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. Joyce Grenfell If government can give you ...

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to

do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place. Daisy Fuentes I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant. Andrew Dice Clay The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. Yann Martel Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction. Warren Buffett Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian. Dave Foley Every calling is great when greatly pursued. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I have always been driven. I have always believed in what I believe very deeply. Alastair Campbell Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax. Jackie Stewart We need a free media, not just freedom of speech. Tom Scholz Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life. Valerie Simpson

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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...

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...

My uncle inspired me, and it was because of him that I become a wrestler,

but besides him, the one Superstar that really caught my attention growing up as a kid was 'Macho Man' Randy Savage.Rey Mysterio It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a Trojan-horse zealot who came into Komen and within 10 to 11 months had completely turned the place upside down. That's clearly not who I am, and it's not what happened.Karen Handel Once you become president, you don't even have to stop for red lights. And if it looks like traffic's too bad, you just take a helicopter.H. W. Brands From Julia Child to 'The Galloping Gourmet' and the Food Channel and Cooking Channel, our fascination with the spectacle of cooking has been a mainstay of TV entertainment.Chuck Norris I want to love. I want to enjoy life.David Cassidy The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA's positive impact.William M. Daley I was set to confront the might of the ...

I just try to keep the same people I've had around me from Day One.

Keep it a real small circle because if you do that, not too much is going to go bad for you. Kevin Love I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been. Billy Beane I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places. Maya Angelou I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future. Luke Mably To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems. John Eccles I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is. Rachel Zoe Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to...

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and

I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist. Nina Simone Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated. Kenneth Burke Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent. Jerry Lee Lewis In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad. Jerry Lawler I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again. Stellan Skarsgard The wisest have the most authority. Plato Francis Webb is easily our gr...

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...

I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells

me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me. Matthew Broderick The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do. Damon Hill I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel. Phil Keoghan Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it. Germaine Greer I hope to be with you as a writer for a very long time, and I hope that you will enjoy reading my work, because readers are the highest form of life on this planet. Guy Johnson Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth II I thought in terms o...

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 ...