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To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

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• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• Bald is the new black!

  

  Gail Porter
  • Black
  • New
  • Bald

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!

  

  Walter Huston
  • Up
  • Good
  • Man

• Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Me
  • Useful
  • Facebook

• I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • School
  • Free

• People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.

  

  Gary Peters
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• Vampires are super sexy.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Sexy
  • Vampires
  • Super

• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Born

• Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Done
  • Together

• Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Remember
  • Desire
  • Painting

• The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Important
  • Home
  • Artist

• To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was 'system,' an indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was 'industry,' indecision when right was 'caution,' and blind stubbornness when wrong, 'determination.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Determination

• If you want to be --ing individual, don’t get a tattoo. Every --er’s got one these days.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Tattoo

• The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Value

• What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Women
  • Money
  • Dumb

• I know I am no better than anyone else in this world.

  

  Frankie Muniz
  • World

• I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Life
  • Important

• It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

  

  Martin Bashir
  • Experience

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• I hate when people call me 'The Boz'.

  

  The Boz
  • People
  • Hate

• In 2002, my husband died very suddenly. My main concern that day was how to deliver the news to our daughter, then eight. Someone put me in touch with Judith Wallerstein, an expert in child psychology who coached me through what to say.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • Husband
  • Daughter
  • Psychology

• Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

  

  Peter Asher
  • People

• To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

  

  David Sedaris