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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

• 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

• 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

• As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Country
  • Home
  • Waiting

• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • Celebrity

• Worship strengthens you. It gives you a sense of God's presence and ultimately His protection and provision.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • God
  • Giving
  • Worship

• The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis
  • World
  • Believe
  • Law

• If you come to Georgia, you can open up a company in a day. You yourself can come tomorrow and establish a company in a day, and you're not halted by paperwork.

  

  Bidzina Ivanishvili
  • Up

• A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

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

  

  Du Yun
  • Different
  • Serious