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A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

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• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Me
  • Nothing

• Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Ego
  • Luxury

• My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Revolution
  • New
  • New York

• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom

• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Looking

• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Opportunity
  • Space
  • Eyes

• My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Space
  • Basketball
  • Create

• I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Live
  • Remember

• The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Years
  • End
  • Fast

• A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.

  

  Xenophon
  • Great
  • Running
  • Horse

• I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Addict
  • Alcoholic

• Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Talking
  • Everyone
  • Beliefs

• I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  

  Ian Hart
  • American
  • Films
  • Attracted

• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • You
  • Go

• As I was telling my husb- As I was telling President Bush.

  

  Condoleezza Rice

• I was depressed a lot as a kid, and I was really sad and wouldn't be able to get out of bed.

  

  Alisha Boe
  • Sad

• My dad was very excited about me doing 'Laguna Beach,' and he thought it was a great opportunity. My mom, however, living in Chicago, was a little nervous. I mean she had some reservations about MTV. I think there was a point in my life where I wasn't even allowed to watch MTV!

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Weird
  • Cold

• A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

  

  Phil Klay
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