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NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

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• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• France has more need of me than I have need of France.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Me
  • Need
  • France

• A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Individual
  • Users

• My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.

  

  Emo Philips

• I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • Good
  • Golf
  • Green

• I lived in buses. I didn't really have anything else. I didn't feel like a female, and I ended up really kind of isolated. Everybody thinks you're so happy and so wealthy and such a big star, but you're really kind of lonely and don't know how to stop it.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Stop

• You never finish learning.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy
  • Learning

• I think people love it when anybody acts bad; its not particular to me.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Life
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Girl

• You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Really
  • Crisis

• The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Stop
  • Hand

• Before I became an actress, I used to think, 'When I get famous, there's so much love for you. And I think that's what everyone's after with trying to achieve celebrity.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Trying
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.

  

  Barack Obama, Sr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Stop

• Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Song

• I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believer
  • Significant
  • Firm

• You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

  

  Habib Bourguiba
  • Serious

• I believe in the vows that I took with my wife. Through sickness, in health, for richer or poorer.

  

  Michael Schiavo
  • Believe
  • Health
  • Through

• I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tired—my God, so tired—of leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • God
  • Together
  • Beginning

• The two priorities have to find a commonality. That's what this negotiation is about.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Priorities
  • Negotiation
  • Commonality

• Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Time
  • Important
  • Enough

• NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

  

  Carson Daly
  • Priorities
  • Jimmy
  • NBC