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		There's something specific about Chicagoans, and I just felt like I'd love to tell their story in a creative way. Not in a way to go, 'Oh, Chicago's perfect.' I don't believe that. I don't think that. I know we have our issues.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lena Waithe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Watkin Tudor Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Marx 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabriel Iglesias 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Mullen, Jr. 
			 
			
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		I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jack Carroll 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ingmar Bergman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Totheroh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Val Kilmer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harold Prince 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Craig 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachael Taylor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Altman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fareed Zakaria 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've sung background for a couple of bands. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Jackson 
			 
			
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		At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Magnus Scheving 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Owain Yeoman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Larry Wilmore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Peter Drucker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ice Cube 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maeve Binchy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Waldo Emerson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bodhidharma 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's something specific about Chicagoans, and I just felt like I'd love to tell their story in a creative way. Not in a way to go, 'Oh, Chicago's perfect.' I don't believe that. I don't think that. I know we have our issues. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lena Waithe