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		Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alexander Dubcek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Otis Rush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oscar Isaac 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warwick Davis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With 'Tron,' we had so many crew members around and a stage full of special effects people that know exactly what has to be done in the situations. You're on a stage in sets the whole time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Garrett Hedlund 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lapo Elkann 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Caitlin Moran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sally Ride 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nadia Comaneci 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ina Garten 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Baer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Padma Lakshmi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Swayze 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Just like the Internet disrupted the publishing industry, we're going to see Bitcoin micropayments creating some very interesting opportunities for pay-as-you-go, pay-based-on-time online businesses and, frankly, some risks as well to the traditional business model as to how things get sold online. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry Silbert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Esquivel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lana Wachowski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nathan Myhrvold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oscar Isaac 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malcolm Gladwell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vernor Vinge 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jerry Saltz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love donating my time and serving other people. Just seeing the faces of people in need light up when they see you... There is no way I can put it into words. You feel like you did something right. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Austin Seferian-Jenkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Agnes Varda 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bruce Willis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alexander Dubcek