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Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Sufjan Stevens

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• We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Relation
  • Arts
  • Sciences

• It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • Long
  • You
  • Possible

• As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Together
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Environment

• How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Live
  • Desert
  • Within

• You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Business
  • You
  • Driving

• By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Fear
  • Adversity
  • Greatest

• You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.

  

  Jack Black
  • Mind
  • You
  • Little

• I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • People
  • Love
  • London

• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Friends
  • Making
  • Corporate

• My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • People
  • End
  • Old

• Oh, the cat I worked with on 'Game of Thrones' was so badly behaved! It would never do anything it was supposed to do. I was like, 'Get your game together, cat. You're so bad.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Bad
  • Together
  • Game

• If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Done

• I was on a plane, and the steward was coming down the aisle. 'Asian chicken salad...Asian chicken salad...Asian chicken salad...' And he gets to me and he's like, '...chicken salad!' What does he think I'm gonna do? 'Dis is not de salad of my people! In my homeland, dey use mandarin orange slices...and crispy wonton crunches!'

  

  Margaret Cho
  • People

• Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • School
  • America
  • High

• I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Fashion

• I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • Think
  • Reading

• I like the medium boys. Not real perfect, but not too bad, either.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Perfect

• When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

  

  Ice T
  • School
  • She
  • Man

• I went out with the same girl throughout all four years of high school.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • School
  • High
  • Girl

• Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • School
  • Prison
  • Metals