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Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour... JAMES PATTERSON All parents believe their children can do the impossible. They thought it the minute we were born, a... CATHY GUISEWITE All of our pitchers are really young and we have a lot of sophomores that should get some varsity ex... JUSTIN BROOKS I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing... DAVID GALLAGHER I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those wo... ABBI JACOBSON They get to miss a day of school for the trip. They are very excited about that. It should be a fun ... SHANNON MILLER The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me. ABEL FERRARA Defensively we haven't had a lot of time to work, but I am encouraged with the hard work and effort.... DAVE BARROW The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs;... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD It is a lot of work for them but they rise to the occasion. They work so hard and really get that se... LYNNLEA HOLDMAN Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot. ADAM MCKAY There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'... LOUIS C. K. They are excited about the opportunity, but what is good about this team is that they are relaxed an... HANS KLEINSCHMIDT We thought we could have won them all, but we could have lost them all. They come to work every day ... BILLY GILLESPIE We are getting better. The great thing is they work very hard. They work hard and it's great to see ... MACKENZIE CURL I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical ... IGGY AZALEA I think the cartoons that they're children are watching, particularly 'The Simpsons,' th... JERRY LEWIS Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we wor... IVAN REITMAN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, th... DUFF GOLDMAN New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphon... BARBARA COOK Everybody copied Atari products. So we started messing with them and it was fun. We bought enough ch... NOLAN BUSHNELL Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enj... MARK RUSSELL I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die... STEVE GLEASON I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselv... PATTIE BOYD Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL It was obvious to me that they had copied these drawings. And knowing that they had copied them they... TIM ALLEN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate televis... JESSE TYLER FERGUSON But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat... LEWIS CARROLL They both have a knack for making tough shots, and it kind of separates them from all the other play... RON ARTEST I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an ... DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we... PEGGY ORENSTEIN We were all over them from the start, and Marquette was a tired hockey team at the end. I sold the k... CARL VALIMONT This is a solid group. They are all good students, they work hard and they all show up. They have en... BOB SHRADER Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all... ABBY WAMBACH Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research ab... BAHMAN GHOBADI They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because... BRUCE VILANCH We dream that we're all different. The reality is that we're all not. ANTHONY T. HINCKS The best part about playing a mom is that people hug moms. I get hugs all the time. It really makes ... KIM RHODES I'm the perfect amount of guarded. I don't reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs... KELLY CLARKSON Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We An... RUDYARD KIPLING A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We all get so caught up in the moment of what we're doing every day, it's hard to hit that r... TONY STEWART The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - th... BILLIE LOURD We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all h... BILLY GRAHAM Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels ... DAN HARMON The kids are already asking about them. I met them, so we are really excited. They know about that r... JENNIFER WISLER Any time your big guys will go out and run, you put a lot of pressure on the opposition. We have guy... BRETT NORRIS The Canadian coaches are working very hard. This is the first time we have foreign coaches. Before t... HAN XIAOPENG I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN Folks are wandering around that proverbial parking lot of the Internet all day long, without giving ... JAMES COMEY It's so wonderful. I wish they were nearer by. We could get a lot of information. MARILYN DUFRESNE Hearing it in her words, it makes it all the more real. It's something that's hard to get across in ... IRA GLASS They don't have the same cultural diversity at their school. Even though we wish they could have, th... JAMES WARD I beg readers to remember that this is a fantasy. It has of course - or I intended it to have - a mo... C.S. LEWIS Every little gracious act adds to the quotient of grace in the world - how gracious can you be today... ANGIE KARAN I love receiving letters from students who are excited to participate in AIM. They work really hard ... KATHY ELY One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Som... AUBREY O'DAY We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bi... MATT GROENING My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They'... VINNY GUADAGNINO We heard about that all week before we came up here. So in practice, all we did was work hard on con... DEREK DENNIS I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that ... JAMES DENTON The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant.... RON WHITE We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids,... LEE UNKRICH An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ... ANUROOP TYAGI Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to wor... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought ... C. JOYBELL C. We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repai... JEFFREY KLUGER I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that&... KATHARINE MCPHEE It's such a great thing for the two girls that moved on. They really deserved it after all their har... BOB LECOURS As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're ... MEREDITH MONK I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. Y... LILLY SINGH When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an e... NANCY PELOSI People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right... FLORENCE KING The thing about watching a show about the Iraq war, especially for an American audience, is that it ... LUKE MACFARLANE Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... All of the girls played really hard tonight. We struggled a little at the end with their press but w... COACH LORI BELL I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They... CAMERON MATHISON I travel to a lot of schools, and I see firsthand that while we do still have a lot of traditional r... PATRICK CARMAN A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows ... BEN SAVAGE I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me,... BILLIE PIPER They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer... WILLIAM HAZLITT All I know is that your the nicest thing I've ever seen, I wish we could see if we could be somethin... KATE NASH Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose PARKER LOUIS SEELY Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of d... ALISON GOPNIK I love Athena. I love all the goddesses and the archetypes and what they represent because I think t... ISABEL LUCAS
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People are gr... MATT DILLON Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy. MATT MULLENWEG Oh, I think Janie Bryant is a genius. I mean, I think she changed menswear almost single-handedly wi... MATT BOMER That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offere... MATT DAMON Right before 'The Bourne Identity' came out, I hadn't been offered a movie in a year. MATT DAMON Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing peopl... MATT DAMON I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets... MATT GONZALEZ I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a ... MATT KUCHAR It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim. MATT HAIG I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i... MATT HAIG What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business in... MATT TAIBBI Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nost... MATT RIDLEY I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as w... MATT BOMER The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. It's a fantastic model that eliminates risk fo... MATT MICKIEWICZ If you've ever questioned your faith, you're going to question it when you are burying your ... MATT BEVIN 'The Kids Are All Right' is amazing. The performances are insanely good. Julianne Moore is g... MATT BOMER Understanding is curing ignorance and curing ignorance is abolishing fear. MATT MARTY I've always been a guy that's liked a crowd and having people around cheering for me. I'... MATT KUCHAR Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed dow... MATT HAIG I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think t... MATT DAMON Two hundred years ago, industrialisation ruined the labour force. In the modern age, especially in t... MATT BELLAMY If I wasn't an actor, I probably would've tried to get a job with the Braves. MATT LANTER This administration will have no tolerance for the type of brazen disregard that Planned Parenthood ... MATT BEVIN If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; th... MATT HAIG I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a t... MATT RIDLEY In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats d... MATT TAIBBI There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress... 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