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You have to support people who want to do weird, different, fun stuff. Otherwise, it'll get very homogenous.

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• I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Childhood

• Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Up
  • Music
  • Important

• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Future
  • See
  • Turkey

• I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • People
  • Hope
  • Day

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • War
  • Doing

• You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Reality
  • You
  • Find

• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
  • Know

• I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

  

  Feist
  • Long
  • Year
  • Curious

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Problem
  • Message

• As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Long
  • Family
  • OK

• Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Try
  • Talk

• GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

  

  Nas
  • Game
  • Voice
  • Fearless

• I'm a real girly-girl.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Real
  • Girl
  • Girly

• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Couple
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• I had a stormy graduate career, where every week we would have a shouting match. I kept doing deals where I would say, 'Okay, let me do neural nets for another six months, and I will prove to you they work.' At the end of the six months, I would say, 'Yeah, but I am almost there. Give me another six months.'

  

  Geoffrey Hinton
  • Work
  • Career

• In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988.

  

  Mario Cuomo

• I want to compliment The Heritage Foundation for its work on behalf of a strong national defense.

  

  Don Nickles
  • Work
  • Strong

• I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.

  

  Alan Zweibel

• People retire to do what I do every day.

  

  Mark McCormack
  • People

• You have to support people who want to do weird, different, fun stuff. Otherwise, it'll get very homogenous.

  

  Jillionaire
  • People
  • Different
  • Fun