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You know something, the Big Valboski is a lot like a Rubix Cube... the more you play with it, the harder it gets!

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• The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Giving
  • Community
  • Senior

• There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Money
  • Way
  • Others

• The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Why
  • Political
  • Moment

• If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Happy
  • Process
  • Wrong

• The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Problem
  • Years
  • Last

• By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • American
  • Man
  • Serious

• As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • You
  • Author

• With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Play
  • Band
  • Rock

• There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Way
  • Cat
  • Wrong

• Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Management
  • Useful

• My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my sense of humor.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Family
  • Amazing
  • Blessed

• 'I seek the meaning of existence.' said the stranger. 'You are of course, assuming.' said the Master, 'that existence has a meaning.' 'Doesn't it?' 'When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is - you will discover that your question has no meaning.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Experience
  • Question

• The marketing of XP is very deliberate and conscious. Part of it is in co-opting the power of the media; I make sure I'm newsworthy from time to time. Part is in co-opting some of my publisher's ad budget.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Time
  • Power
  • Marketing

• I've done several commercials and I've done voiceovers for documentaries.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Done

• I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • God
  • Done
  • Guy

• What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Real
  • Plato

• Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Powerful
  • Habit

• It is a strength of character to acknowledge our failings and our strong points, and it is a weakness of character not to remain in harmony with both the good and the bad that is within us.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• It was the mid-'70s when I realized it wasn't going off the air.

  

  Bob Denver
  • Air

• It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Society
  • Law
  • Sex

• You know something, the Big Valboski is a lot like a Rubix Cube... the more you play with it, the harder it gets!

  

  Val Venis