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When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

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• I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• My father had very little formal education.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Father
  • Education
  • Little

• I think I've slayed my long jump demons.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Jump

• I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Wish
  • Myself
  • Employer

• I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Feeling
  • Film
  • Explore

• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • People
  • Debt
  • Corrupt

• In question-and-answer sessions after a reading or during an interview, I forget the question if I'm giving too long an answer. And at the end, I can't remember any of the questions. The more anxious I am about remembering, the more likely I am to forget.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Giving

• Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Train
  • Through
  • Basics

• I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

  

  Jack Black
  • Like
  • See
  • Just

• I didn't aim at anything except good music.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Music
  • Aim

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything in each 90-minute show. I've never really taken an extended break, so I'd like to see what a vacation is really like.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Myself
  • Taken
  • Down

• I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Studying
  • Laboratory
  • Moore

• Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites win.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Win
  • Racing
  • Rare

• In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Family
  • Food
  • Control

• It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Future
  • Happiness

• I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Danger

• I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

  

  Krista Allen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sports

• Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Good
  • Chicago
  • Honesty

• Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.

  

  Meghan Daum
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• I was at CNBC for 20 years. I felt really great about covering the stock market, being on the floor, watching the daily knee-jerk reactions to the stock market..but the last three years, being at Fox, I've grown. I've learned more.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Great
  • Daily
  • Stock

• When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

  

  Lee DeWyze