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		While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Andrew Solomon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Pelosi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Feist 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zach Anner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ottmar Hitzfeld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan O'Brien 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sally Hawkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Babasaheb 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damien Rice 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Benanti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahesh Babu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yo-Yo Ma 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Boris Sidis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Cross 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. - Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Matthew Arnold 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elia Kazan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Andrew Solomon