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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

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• There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Money
  • Will

• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Wife

• No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Long
  • Church
  • Religion

• In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Day
  • Best
  • Three

• Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Great
  • Me
  • Singing

• I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • Never
  • Camera

• From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Culture
  • Guitar
  • Thanks

• We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wrong way.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Want
  • Way
  • Wrong

• A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Important
  • Way
  • Healthy

• I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Family
  • Love

• There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Family
  • Book

• Well, I motorcycle, I hunt, fish, I do all that. I keep busy. I'm never bored. I've never been bored.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Bored
  • Busy
  • Fish

• I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal.

  

  Becky G
  • Fact
  • Normal
  • Definitely

• I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

  

  Edmund White
  • Read
  • Americans
  • England

• I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Want
  • Old
  • Now

• Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Free
  • Democracy
  • Needs

• I try not to invest time in what other people think of me.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • People
  • Time

• I am not, and have never been, a supporter of cockfighting or any other forms of animal cruelty.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • Animal

• Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.

  

  Alexandre Aja
  • Up
  • Spring

• You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.

  

  William Shatner
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Imagine

• I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.

  

  Peter Saul
  • Good
  • Long
  • Children

• No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

  

  Livy