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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Great
  • Thinking

• My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Destiny

• I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Pretend

• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Parents
  • Fear
  • Food

• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Different
  • Remember

• In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Grow

• My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Women
  • Really
  • Neighborhood

• If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Life
  • Alcohol
  • Marijuana

• A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Positive
  • Thoughts
  • Attitude

• If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Feeling
  • Progress
  • Values

• Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Different
  • Movie

• The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Night

• I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Home
  • Privacy

• I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people do. Obviously, humans are the only animals that do that. You don't see a wolf walk to the end of a cliff and look over the edge to freak himself out.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Experience
  • Weird

• I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Day
  • Exercise
  • Fight

• 'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Great
  • Character
  • Friends

• If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• We should have an easier name to pronounce.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates

• Good advertising is written from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Good
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  • Written