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		I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William S. Cohen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				R. Lee Ermey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fat Joe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Fogler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Boxer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian K. Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Rosling 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gael Garcia Bernal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Collins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ban Ki-moon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malcolm McDowell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Murch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Allan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				K. Flay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lara Pulver 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hannah Kent 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garrett Hardin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. H. Auden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Iris Apfel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Tragedy brings change, and that's what I'm interested in most - how people plunge into change and try to fight, then eventually move with it with grace. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kaui Hart Hemmings 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The amazing thing about Bob Marley is that there is no moving footage of him at all for the first ten or eleven years of his career. From 1962 to 1973, there's nothing, not a single frame. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kevin Macdonald 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		LSD as Adolf Hitler: Heil Baby! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mel Brooks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: 'what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tad Williams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?". 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vivienne Westwood 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I believe the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction presents the greatest threat that the world has ever known. We are finding more and more countries who are acquiring technology - not only missile technology - and are developing chemical weapons and biological weapons capabilities to be used in theater and also on a long range basis. So I think that is perhaps the greatest threat that any of us will face in the coming years. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William S. Cohen