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He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

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• I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Find

• I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Think
  • Crime
  • Worst

• 'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Environment
  • Stressful
  • SNL

• Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Very

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Honor
  • Where

• I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Done
  • Star
  • Couple

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Great
  • Learning
  • Achieve

• As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Blind

• I live for the text. It's my job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Job
  • Text

• I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Knows
  • Roles
  • Historical

• Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Next

• As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Woman
  • Young
  • Name

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Marriage
  • Dialogue
  • Final

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Power
  • Focus

• I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• Honesty is a gift we can give to others. It is also a source of power and an engine of simplicity. Knowing that we will attempt to tell the truth, whatever the circumstances, leaves us with little to prepare for. We can simply be ourselves.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Honesty

• I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That's all any of us can hope for.

  

  April Winchell
  • Hope
  • Wish
  • Thursday

• I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.

  

  David Clennon
  • Different
  • Attention
  • Responsibility

• He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

  

  Plato
  • Power
  • Wish