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		In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Grant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Randy Quaid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Samuel Gompers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fiona McIntosh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Harold Perrineau 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Daniel Boulud 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				A. Scott Berg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barry Humphries 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aaron Patzer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abdullah II of Jordan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Garrison Keillor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Paget Brewster 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kaskade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that instant recognition and at such an early stage, where people totally didn't know my name, but they knew my face immediately. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nate Torrence 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zora Neale Hurston 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. Philippe Rushton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Warren Bennis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Captain Beefheart