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		Every weekday morning, I picture my first paragraph while I hike with my dog Milo near Mulholland Drive, looking out over the San Fernando Valley. I edit the paragraph, then memorize it, so that when I get back home and sit down at my computer, the blank screen's tyranny lasts only a second or two. A brief reign!
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lauren Kate 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Larry Page 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mads Mikkelsen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Madeleine L'Engle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Garry Shandling 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zach Braff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hans Kung 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eminem 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		House, rap, R&B, disco rock, they are all part of hip-hop culture. Why you ain't playing Kraftwerk along with Jay-Z? That's hip-hop. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Afrika Bambaataa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There's even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Peter Higgs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tony Kushner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				George Will 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every weekday morning, I picture my first paragraph while I hike with my dog Milo near Mulholland Drive, looking out over the San Fernando Valley. I edit the paragraph, then memorize it, so that when I get back home and sit down at my computer, the blank screen's tyranny lasts only a second or two. A brief reign! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lauren Kate