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A lot of companies are global.

Jan Koum

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• It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Love
  • Character
  • Fun

• It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Play

• Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I actually like football a great deal.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Great
  • Football
  • Like

• I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Clothes
  • Old
  • Lady

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Family
  • School
  • Job

• I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Nice
  • Party
  • Cool

• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
  • Government
  • Group

• I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.

  

  Jack Warner
  • America
  • Best
  • Week

• Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Light
  • Style
  • Creativity

• Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Game
  • Best

• The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Freedom
  • Beginning
  • Process

• People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Past
  • Things

• I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Think
  • Struggle
  • Swimming

• I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Lost
  • Chance

• The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Society
  • Speak
  • Organization

• I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

  

  David Brock

• It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

  

  Rita Coolidge
  • Sense
  • Mathematical

• Let me first tell you one thing: It doesn't matter what the world says about Israel; it doesn't matter what they say about us anywhere else. The only thing that matters is that we can exist here on the land of our forefathers. And unless we show the Arabs that there is a high price to pay for murdering Jews, we won't survive.

  

  David Ben-Gurion
  • World
  • High

• Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Every woman needs to know the facts. And the fact is, when it comes to breast cancer, every woman is at risk.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Risk
  • Cancer

• A lot of companies are global.

  

  Jan Koum