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I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

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• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Race

• I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Soul
  • Star
  • Thought

• I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking to each other, and I will just start playing both characters. I can't hear them, but I can see their mouths moving, so I'll just put words in their mouths.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Words
  • Light
  • Moving

• Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Today
  • Energy
  • Youth

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • May
  • Truth

• I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Father

• I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Enjoy
  • Doing
  • Living

• I don't go to celebrity parties a lot. I don't really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people... it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift's birthday party; then it's amazing.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Party
  • Amazing

• I'm happy that people have loved my film and my work. I have always let my work do the talking, and I guess I have proved to my critics that I'm not over.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• I'm really into California art from the '60s.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • California
  • Really

• In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Life
  • See

• He disagreed with something that ate him.

  

  Ian Fleming

• I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Death
  • Comedy
  • Daily

• Listening to the neoconservatives, Bush invaded Iraq, united the Arab world against us, isolated us from Europe, and fulfilled to the letter bin Laden's prophecy as to what we were about.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • Listening

• Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• They men have corrupted this God's supernatural order by making profane things what they should make of holy things, because in fact, we believe scarcely any thing except which pleases us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Believe
  • Men

• Omnis cum in tenebris praesertim vita laboret.

  

  Lucretius

• Show business always tries to stereotype you, so that is something you have to fight against no matter who you are. A lot of actors who are of a minority background complain that they only get stereotyped roles, and they are 100 percent correct. However, it's also true that, no matter who you are, you get typecast as well.

  

  Judah Friedlander
  • Actors
  • Roles
  • Stereotype

• People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

  

  Fred L. Turner
  • People
  • Heart

• Banging on the piano while my grandmother was watching me. I'd run up to her and ask: 'How was that, Grandma?' And she'd say, 'That was beautiful, baby!' And I'd run back to the piano and play some more. I'm sure that's why I still play today, because I was encouraged from such a young age, 2 or 3.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• I really think we need to see how we can expand our privacy laws.

  

  Gene Green