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• At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Career

• My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Live
  • Children
  • Real

• I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Military
  • Chinese
  • Year

• I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Always
  • Baby
  • Dancing

• For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • College

• I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interest
  • Big
  • Swing

• We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• Sans douteJe peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute.

  

  Edmond Rostand

• Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Knowledge

• 'Oh, I see,' said Jenny. 'But you're just getting these men New Age gurus to help you all feel better. I thought when you talked about helping people you meant other people. You know, like the blind.'Isn't everybody blind, in one way or another?' asked Wendy.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • People
  • Men
  • Help

• There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Empowering

• I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

  

  Donald Norman
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Technology

• Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

  

  Jason Biggs
  • World
  • Comedy

• My brother was 13 when people started telling me that he was a 'hipster.' I was 11 and thought it was so stressful, like, 'How do you not be called that?'

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Brother
  • Hipster

• I am a Hitchcockian - I still believe that 'Psycho' sets the standard for mother/son relations.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Son

• To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel, really.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Reading
  • Focus

• I think it's so important to be healthy and confident and natural. And not put too much stress on trying to be thin - I don't get the thin, thin thing at all.

  

  Lily James
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Stress

• Minus Point:

  

  Preity Zinta

• The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Growth
  • Maturity

• It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Done
  • Achievement

• We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features.

  

  E. H. Moore
  • Science
  • Respect
  • Math

• Luneta and her parents started and whirled around, to see Terence standing just inside Luneta's door. "Deuce it, Terence!" Luneta's father expostulated. "You'll kill someone that way someday! How did you get inside without any of us hearing you?" "I came in the door, of course," Terence replied, stepping forward. He held two swords in scabbards, which he tossed onto Luneta's bed as he approaced. "For anyone else, the hinges would have squeaked," Luneta's father muttered.

  

  Gerald Morris
  • Courses
  • Standing
  • Someday

• We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.

  

  Van Jones