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TRINI LOPEZ HENRY JAMES I asked him if he was going to do the bidding of the mayor and I was pretty satisfied with his answe... DAVID BLOOM CARRIE FISHER TERRY WOGAN My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called... ED BRADLEY HILLARY CLINTON With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t... JACQUES VILLENEUVE PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA CRAIG GROESCHEL MARK HELPRIN He was held there for a couple of months. Every day an officer would come onto the field with a loud... EDMUNDO BOUDON STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour, ... I ... STEPHAN PASTIS NIKKI ROWE BERTRAND RUSSELL MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV JIM VALVANO He became a father-figure to me. He was a big part of my life. DAVE FLEMING It was after he bit me that, and was kind of, the water had calm down a little bit, that I was reall... ELIZABETH DUNN EMME ROLLINS He had some really sharp pitches. He was just a little bit up on occasion. He made some really nice ... JOE MADDON Don't resist life, flow with it. JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm. JIM GENOVESE OSCAR WILDE Looking back, it was amazing. He was his ebullient self. He had been through a hard place, but he wa... JAMES NYKOLAY AZZEDINE ALAIA DALLAS WILLARD WALTER MOSLEY He was one of my favorites. He was a real fine man. He was easy to get along with. DALE STEPHENS He just gave of himself and was very active in borough politics. Anybody who came in touch with him.... HAL HONIG My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. JACKY ICKX David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he... SHIMON PERES HENRY FORD E.M. FORSTER CHRISTOPHER FOWLER Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t... EMILY GIFFIN BOB DYLAN He was completely laid out. The kid is a triple jumper, and he needed that form to go for that ball.... JEFF HOUSTON Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ... LEONARD ROSE EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h... DAN HILL GEORGE MICHAEL DEYTH BANGER When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for pres... ANNE COX CHAMBERS APOLO OHNO TYLER PERRY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEVEN SPIELBERG DOLPH LUNDGREN NANETTE L. AVERY MAX LUCADO MARGARET MITCHELL I gave him some of my thoughts, he gave me some of his thoughts. He was really amenable to doing wha... NED COLLETTI One night after a show he gave me a gift. When I opened up the bag, he had made out of clay and drie... DANE COOK The rules only applied toCAMERON STRACHER My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ... P. J. HARVEY CORY BOOKER KARAN JOHAR The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. DAVID HASSELHOFF CHARLIZE THERON CHARLIZE THERON My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic. DANNY AIELLO He was always the life of the party. The manner in which he would tell a story with that strong sout... LAWRIE MANTWELL As a teacher, your job is to motivate your unmotivated student. This is how you shape the future SOTONYE ANGA ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH C. JOYBELL C. A couple of times we still gave him gifts and he said thanks, but this year we finally told him we w... LARRY GOETHE Working with Lasse Hallstroem was like a rollercoaster, because he doesn't have one specific vis... MANISH DAYAL My father would go shopping, and he was supposed to buy loo roll or something, but he'd always c... TOM PARKER BOWLES JEAN DUJARDIN
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BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin... BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor. BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus... BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo... BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind... BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of... BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ... BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou... BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f... BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles. BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot. BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see... BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming. BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live... BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got. BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl... BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind... BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke... BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there. BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening. BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you... BEN MENDELSOHN BEN SHAPIRO BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it. BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as... BEN MEZRICH BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ... BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback. BEN SILBERMANN BEN CARSON BEN CARSON BEN SCHNETZER BEN SHAPIRO I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci... BEN WHISHAW BEN PARR BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see... BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar. BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics... BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while. BEN MARCUS BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs. BEN GIBBARD BEN CARSON BEN AFFLECK Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha... BEN SHAHN BEN SHAPIRO BEN NELSON From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter. BEN PLATT BEN SHAPIRO BEN GOLDACRE BEN CARSON BEN AFFLECK BEN BERNANKE BEN AFFLECK We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and... BEN FOSTER BEN JOHNSON BEN HECHT I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human... BEN SILBERMANN BEN HECHT BEN CARSON BEN KINGSLEY BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON BEN JONSON 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.' BEN FOUNTAIN BEN PARR BEN BERNANKE BEN BERNANKE BEN BERNANKE There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ... BEN HARNEY BEN JONSON BEN HECHT BEN CARSON BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas... BEN HARPER BEN CARSON BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives. BEN WEININGER BEN STEIN BEN KINGSLEY BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN HECHT BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t... 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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with whic... 
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of ... 
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... 
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... 
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he ... 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ... 
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig... 
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty offic... 
To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the... 
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. 
My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And... 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... 
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... 
He is the greatest mystery I had even known, one that always had me craving just a little bit more. 
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its in... 
My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junio... 
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. 
My knees were weak but he held me with one hand, guiding me with the motion of his hips. I was compl... 
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude. 
My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfat... 
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if inde... 
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... 
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do wha... 
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. 
My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whi... 
..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understa... 
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre... 
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man. 
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... 
My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... 
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... 
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my fath... 
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a har... 
Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. 
I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a... 
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar. 
My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor si... 
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent. 
"He walked me home and made out with me. That was my second kiss and he got to second base too. Then... 
the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
It was actually quite easy to work with Uggie, because he's a really well trained dog. Very tale... 
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st... 
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. 
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names... 
If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge... 
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression. 
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ... 
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare... 
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b... 
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism. 
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin... 
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid... 
Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ... 
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a... 
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ... 
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ... 
If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would... 
I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni... 
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly. 
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t... 
We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m... 
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor... 
This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha... 
A third Cato has dropped from the skies. 
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. 
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a... 
Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g... 
Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
Success is a journey, not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative. 
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort... 
Force works on servile natures, not the free. 
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n... 
We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda... 
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. 
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. 
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru... 
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. 
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first. 
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... 
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,... 
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h... 
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence. 
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life... 