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• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Nice
  • Film
  • Tears

• Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Teach
  • Group

• I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Cool

• I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Up
  • Want
  • Space

• In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.

  

  Vince Cable
  • World
  • Job
  • Class

• Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

  

  Sam Childers
  • America
  • Bad
  • Want

• I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• I really love peace and quiet.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Quiet

• The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • News

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

  

  B. B. King
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Poetry

• I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men. But where I draw the line, what I absolutely won't do, is the lady who plays bridge in the afternoon!

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Men
  • Shoes
  • Bridge

• Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• A lot of what I've done as Nine Inch Nails has been governed by fear. I was trying to keep the songs in a framework that was tough, and I learnt a lot from Jesus and Mary Chain about how to bury nice pop songs in unlistenable noise - the idea being if you can get behind that wall, you find there's a pearl inside.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Fear

• I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

  

  Tacitus
  • Beautiful
  • Distance
  • Viewed

• Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.

  

  Brian Behlendorf
  • Work
  • Trying