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I'd like to be more spontaneous.

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• Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

  

  Nancy Greene
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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I am always locked in my design studio.

  

  Valentino Garavani
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• Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

  

  Natascha McElhone
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• I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

  

  Ice T
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• Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
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• I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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• Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

  

  Daley Thompson
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  • Dark

• The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.

  

  Valeria Mazza
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• I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

  

  Fay Weldon
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• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

  

  Edmund Spenser
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• I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what they're doing, they've seen it done right, they've seen it done wrong, and they feel comfortable. There's not a lot of chin-scratching and wondering what your next move is.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
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• A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
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• I'd like to be more spontaneous.

  

  Val McDermid
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