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		Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erma Bombeck 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Growing up, I always wanted to sing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damian McGinty 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Haley Joel Osment 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Simmons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Felix Baumgartner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naomi Klein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like reading a lot. Jeffrey Archer and Robert Ludlum are my favourite authors. I love making realistic cinema, so I read non-fiction more. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madhur Bhandarkar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kathleen Rubins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren Rudman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wendy Kopp 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ze Frank 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Colin Firth 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Adults are always telling young people, 'These are the best years of your life.' Are they? I don't know. Sometimes when adults say this to children I look into their faces. They look like someone on the top seat of the Ferris wheel who has had too much cotton candy and barbecue. They'd like to get off and be sick but everyone keeps telling them what a good time they're having. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erma Bombeck