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I like a lot of different things equally, with no boundaries, and in a very serious way.

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• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Really
  • Mainstream
  • Novelist

• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Player
  • Enough

• Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Day
  • Sex
  • Everyday

• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Great
  • Never
  • Secrets

• At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Vision

• I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Want
  • Kind
  • End

• The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Experiences

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Books
  • Jokes
  • Spend

• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Government
  • Struggle
  • Nickel

• Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Order
  • U.S.
  • Crown

• Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Tradition

• When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Game

• By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Products
  • Consumers

• I love 'Glee.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Glee

• This phrase, 'culture jamming,' was very much in vogue in the 1990s when these superbrands sort of emerged and started kind of projecting their names onto ever more surfaces.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • More

• Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Life

• They're very aggressive on defense. They have a smaller lineup on defense up front and they really get to the football.

  

  Bob Lutz
  • Football
  • Defense
  • Aggressive

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Different
  • Water
  • Star

• I like a lot of different things equally, with no boundaries, and in a very serious way.

  

  Du Yun
  • Different
  • Serious