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		If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Viggo Mortensen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Val Kilmer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't care about revenues. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Ma 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachael Leigh Cook 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Buchanan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Feist 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Hamel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hannibal Buress 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Benicio Del Toro 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you think about it, the most important thing to a toy is to be played with by a child, and anything that keeps them from being played with gives them stress - things like getting lost, getting broken. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lee Unkrich 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Anthony Trollope 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If there's one thing I've learned from traveling, it's that it is definitely more important how you are than where you are. You can say, 'Oh, I hate X city, I hate that country, or I prefer this city,' but it's a little bit up to you to find some kind of happiness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Viggo Mortensen