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Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

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• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

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• That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

  

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• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

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• For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

  

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• Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

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• I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

  

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• If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

  

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• We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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• My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

  

  Vince Vaughn
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• I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.

  

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• Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

  

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• I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

  

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• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

  

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• It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

  

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• In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job. I can say, 'Oh, my height,' and that'll make me feel better, but I don't know for sure.

  

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• I used to think she was quite intelligent , in my stupidity. The reason I did was because she knew quite a lot about the theater and plays and literature and all that stuff. If somebody knows quite a lot about all those things, it takes you quite a while to find out whether they're really stupid or not.

  

  J. D. Salinger
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• I know a lot of law officers, and every single one of them faces a moment - usually after about three hours on the job - when they realise that there's no connection between law and justice. The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
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• Madonna had to break through; I knew she was going to make it big, because I could see how ambitious she was, in a very genuine and sweet way.

  

  Maripol
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