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		Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zelig Pliskin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Craig 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kaskade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Lineker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Hunter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kailash Satyarthi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Olson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yuna 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laila Ali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbra Streisand 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Kent Cooke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Baer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Val McDermid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Cho 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's not how deep you go, it's how you go deep. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ida Pauline Rolf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. J. T. Mitchell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zelig Pliskin