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• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, religious and economic freedoms that enrich the lives of all citizens. India is not only the world's largest democracy; it is also a secular, pluralistic society committed to inclusive growth.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • World
  • Society
  • Religious

• I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.

  

  C. Douglas Payne
  • People
  • Temptation

• I'm an atheist, a devout atheist, but I find religion fascinating. Primarily because of cultural references, as in: This is what we grew up with. Both on a personal level and a collective level.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Atheist

• One of the things I noticed about the '2 Broke Girls' pilot was that it looked like a new episode in a season and not a pilot, and that's an amazing sign.

  

  Nick Zano
  • Seasons
  • Episodes
  • Pilots

• People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Power
  • Government
  • Better

• I have been called an eco-designer simply because I use wood. But I am not an eco-designer, nor does the use of wood make me one. I am a designer who cares about the effect of what I do, and about making good things for people to keep and cherish - that, surely, is simply the basic condition for 'good design'?

  

  David Trubridge
  • People
  • Things
  • Designer

• Learning isn't just K-12. It starts prenatally. If you get a bead on what your children are and aren't being exposed to at school, that will suggest the kinds of experiences you want your children to have outside of school.

  

  Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
  • Children
  • Learning
  • Experiences

• When I was signed to Aftermath, the label was giving me the most difficulty with clearing songs for video games because they didn’t understand the importance of video games.

  

  Philip Martin
  • Importance
  • Label
  • Video Games

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
  • Common Sense

• I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Mad

• I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.

  

  Lorde
  • Internet
  • Impossible
  • I Think

• We all know that love is truly the key. Anyone who tries to make anyone think that things of destruction has anything to do with God or Allah, they're a liar.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • God
  • Know
  • Destruction

• When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.

  

  Simon Kinberg
  • Writing
  • Disappear
  • Script

• Everything that I think is good is bad, and everything that I think is bad is good.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Thinking

• I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Book
  • Technology
  • Sleep

• I'm a pretty decent cook. I like to grill. I have a smoker that I love. I love me some steak. And I'll make a huge salad with a ton of vegetables.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Cook
  • Decent
  • Vegetables

• Eric Holder is a decent man.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
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