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• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Different
  • Power
  • Process

• I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Musician

• I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Faith
  • Ignorance
  • Facts

• Do you honestly think that if Senator Santorum becomes president, we're going to get rid of contraceptives?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Think
  • You
  • President

• Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Guy
  • You
  • Space

• Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Remember
  • Today

• When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

  

  Larry Niven
  • War
  • Cold
  • Cold War

• It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Wanted
  • Direct
  • Script

• The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Character
  • Single
  • Best

• I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Feel
  • Questions

• If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Service

• Business fits me best. The only reason I went into modeling originally was to help out my family, because I knew that money gave you freedom.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Family
  • Money
  • Business

• I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Actors

• We're most likely to lose our rights when we allow ourselves to be persuaded to deprive others of theirs.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Rights
  • Loses

• Carolyn Maloney is really constantly thinking, "How do we improve things?" You know, sees the glass always half-full, and you have to be an optimist to work in Washington. So that's what I - we admire so much about her.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Optimist

• The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.

  

  David Burnett
  • World
  • Home
  • Cameras

• Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Daily
  • Random
  • Details

• It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • War
  • Details
  • Harder

• My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Interest
  • I Can
  • Product

• No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

  

  William James
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