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When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.

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• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Possible

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Loss
  • Benefit
  • Sovereignty

• I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Age
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Love

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Reading
  • Learn
  • Better

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Universe

• There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Water
  • Monster
  • Glass

• I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Like
  • English

• The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Office

• People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Born
  • Conservative

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• I need to end up with someone who is strong, intelligent, independent, someone I really admire - sensitive, sensuous, warm, a sense of humor.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Independent

• I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Myself
  • Behind
  • Reveal

• As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • People
  • Women
  • Happy

• We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.

  

  Alexei Mordashov
  • Growth

• I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Environment

• I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Great
  • Death
  • College

• I think my home is in that sort of the part of cinema that's disappeared is where I lived, that sort of mid-budget you know, drama. I suppose that's what I am known for.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Home
  • Drama
  • I Think

• When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.

  

  Donald Hall
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