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• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Stand

• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
  • Know

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Doing
  • Loved
  • Building

• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Past

• If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Think
  • Him
  • Upset

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • People
  • See
  • Right

• I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Rest
  • Acting

• Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • True
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Artist

• You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Know
  • Everyone
  • Mythology

• You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Want
  • Water
  • Horse

• We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Football
  • Red
  • Summer

• It's totally my dream job. I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.' We'd watch it at sleepover parties and quote it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • Live
  • Job

• I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

  

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

• I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Business
  • College
  • Understood

• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Israel

• We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we're responsible, that we can handle it, that we've got all our ducks in a row . . . most women who direct always come in on budget, always come in on schedule, and if they were wild and irresponsible it would not be put down to brilliance, but to a general flakiness.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Shadow
  • Prove
  • Responsible

• Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • Work
  • Painting
  • Reflected

• Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Work
  • Technology