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Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

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• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Walks
  • Heels
  • Idealist

• Songwriters tell the truth.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Truth
  • Tell
  • Songwriters

• Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Powerful
  • Organization

• I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Different

• I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Change
  • Me

• I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

  

  Larry Page
  • Like
  • Really
  • While

• I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

  

  Larry David
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• There are the horror fans that love the 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Not all horror fans love 'Evil Dead' because of the humor, at least not me.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Evil
  • Fans
  • Humor

• Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Clothes
  • Musicians
  • Sixties

• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Men
  • Family
  • History

• I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Person
  • Clothes
  • Reflected

• It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Long
  • Live
  • Remember

• You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

  

  Gary Busey
  • Important
  • Growth
  • Finding

• The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Islam
  • Structure

• Consider-We are bornNot with purpose,But with potential.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Purpose

• This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• Tupac used to comment on people who criticized him for cursing, as a matter of fact he said, this is just about verbatim, ‘As I walked into this hall, I passed a young child who was hungry. There is not a bigger curse than a young child hungry’.

  

  Afeni Shakur
  • Child
  • Hungry
  • Criticized

• Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music

• Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • American
  • Law
  • Directors

• Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

  

  John Milton
  • Roses
  • Jessamine
  • Iris

• Archaeologists are underpaid publicity agents for deceased royalty.

  

  John Agar