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		Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Michael Gurian 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Reynor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Uday Kotak 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Safra A. Catz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Narendra Modi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Val Kilmer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				E. F. Benson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tupac Shakur 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Maureen Forrester 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Benicio Del Toro 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Emily Mortimer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Douglas Brinkley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Elizabeth Perkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter." 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gaston Bachelard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I saw Death itself.
It was a feral thing, made of smoke and shadow. It was hollow and empty.
And hungry.
Starving. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Beth Revis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I believe Twitter, right now, is just finishing the venture capital phase, getting into a maturity level. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Al-Waleed bin Talal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Michael Gurian