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• I'm not a Republican.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Republican

• In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.

  

  Imran Amed
  • School
  • Theatre
  • Studying

• I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Internet
  • Passwords

• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Technology

• I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Focus
  • Myself
  • Thought

• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Things

• I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Think
  • Pressure
  • Public

• Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

  

  B. B. King
  • You
  • Play
  • Blue

• Cynicism is humor in ill health.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Health
  • Humor
  • Cynicism

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
  • Swimming

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Know
  • Sacrifice

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Up
  • May
  • More

• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cost

• We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

  

  David Ansen
  • Value
  • Understanding

• Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Kids
  • Christmas
  • Birthday

• The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.

  

  Anne Cassidy
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Truth

• A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each other, and all these people living with each other. It's like, okay, we hooked them up in episode 15, how do we bust that, how do we find a new kernel in it?

  

  Dave Finkel
  • People
  • Up

• A bad peace is even worse than war.

  

  Tacitus
  • War
  • Bad
  • Peace