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		This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Mendes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. Michael Bishop 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				L. Neil Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Jenkins Reid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rand Beers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. L. Mencken 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Calvin Klein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Soon-Shiong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nate Berkus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fernando Alonso 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My daughter passed away in 2003. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Cormier 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				La'Porsha Renae 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		War is the unfolding of miscalculations. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Tuchman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Umberto Eco 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rafael Cruz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go directly to the public, that's a completely different field of engagement, and I think the NRA is not adept at that kind of engagement. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gavin Newsom 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Levine 
			 
			
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		I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harold MacMillan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dick York 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Who you are is less important than what you seem. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Iain Pears 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ma Jian 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even moderates, they can see in Trump the potential to have logjams broken and things finally get done. This makes some conservatives and some liberals furious, nervous, and me nervous a little bit, because I'm a pretty pure conservative. So that's a potential of his leadership. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jeff Sessions 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Andy Serkis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Mendes