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		So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Mahoney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Power 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Earl Nightingale 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Frances Beinecke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				S. Jay Olshansky 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Harrier 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Whitehall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fernando Botero 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Hume 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oscar Robertson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. N. Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Ligety 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I've grown up watching football my whole life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marisa Miller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				C. S. Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jayma Mays 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kary Mullis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Mahoney