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• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • Up
  • World
  • Kids

• The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Organization
  • Economic

• When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Want
  • Song
  • Find

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Sometimes

• It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Career
  • Me
  • Amazing

• I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Support

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Think
  • Thought
  • Design

• I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • World
  • Working
  • Recreate

• I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Present
  • Like

• In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Working

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• It won't suit me anyway if I suddenly do rock or traditional R&B because I grew up as a member of Big Bang, and therefore I'm used to it.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Bigs
  • Members
  • Rocks

• We need to do a lot more thinking about how the regime is going to evolve, how the bad guys are going to adapt their tactics, and what measures we're going to need in order to go forward.

  

  Mitchell Reiss
  • Thinking
  • Forward
  • Measures

• If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • Kind
  • Problem
  • Player

• A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

  

  Joe Biden
  • America

• Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

  

  Branch Rickey
  • Player