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• My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Athlete

• But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Responsibility
  • Enjoy

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Want
  • Society
  • Environment

• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Cool
  • Stand

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Real
  • Me
  • Deep

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Learning
  • Thought

• Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Will
  • I Can
  • Twitter

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.

  

  Flume
  • Different
  • Home
  • Feel

• The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Questions

• I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Work
  • Want

• If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Sound
  • Guitar
  • Too Much

• Racism is here and will always exist, but we can't use it as a crutch.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Racism

• Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • School
  • True

• All I care about is that people are being entertained. It's not about being the world champion [in wrestling], it's about exciting the people. If you walk away entertained, then I did my job, and that's all I care about.

  

  Randy Savage
  • People
  • Care
  • Entertained

• I come from a real working class background, and I didn't know anyone sophisticated - except I saw Edie Sedgewick once at the Art Museum in Philly. She had these black leotards and little black pumps and this big ermine cape and all these white dogs and black sunglasses and black eyes. She was classy!

  

  Patti Smith
  • Real
  • Art
  • She

• I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.

  

  Jason Calacanis
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