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		He thought that everyone should listen to her voice, because there was so much sadness and happiness in it, all at the same time. And he knew she could make the world be quiet, and he thought that maybe the world needed to be quiet. That was the problem with the world—it never stayed quiet long enough to listen.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Benjamin Alire Saenz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Victoria Justice 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				E. W. Howe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Garrett Hedlund 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's possible that you have been told a time or 10 that you don't appreciate how tough your elders had it. It's true that, if you had been coming of age back in, say, 1960, you would probably be feeling more restricted, if only because you were doomed to spend your days in a skirt, nylon stockings and girdle. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gail Collins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carli Lloyd 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Larry the Cable Guy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Patricia Richardson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Al Pacino 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Socrates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		He thought that everyone should listen to her voice, because there was so much sadness and happiness in it, all at the same time. And he knew she could make the world be quiet, and he thought that maybe the world needed to be quiet. That was the problem with the world—it never stayed quiet long enough to listen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Benjamin Alire Saenz