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I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.

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• You either are or you're not.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Either

• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Fun
  • Know

• I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Food
  • Understand
  • Mexican

• Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Years
  • Moment
  • Dead

• If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Poetry
  • Hunting
  • Desperate

• I love dancing.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Dancing

• Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Fun
  • Point
  • Hotel

• There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Internet
  • Social
  • Momentum

• I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writers
  • Thriller
  • Favourites

• Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Form
  • Benefit
  • Partnership

• I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Need
  • Honest

• They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Actor
  • Call
  • Maybe

• I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Past

• My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • Long
  • Women
  • Hope

• I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

  

  Harry Browne
  • American
  • Bad
  • Sorry

• There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Real
  • Sense
  • Camaraderie

• I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.

  

  Ian McShane
  • True
  • Man
  • Culture

• Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.

  

  David Cohen

• Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • Good
  • Country
  • Gun

• If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Life
  • Important
  • Attitude

• One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Time
  • World

• I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.

  

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