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		You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Haruki Murakami 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Women are not all single-issue voters. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hans Vestberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Baruch Spinoza 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Washed Out 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tarsem Singh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fleur East 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Katey Sagal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Valenti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what we believe in, what we are like. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Brad Stine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
				Garry Kasparov 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ian Mcewan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ian Mckellen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Haruki Murakami