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		You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carlos Ghosn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edie McClurg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Green 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zebulon Pike 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				I. King Jordan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels good. And I just knew that was the place I needed, wanted to be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samira Wiley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone (Michael Moore) who actually embodies all of those qualities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Christopher Hitchens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bill Gates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you're surrounded by feathers and sequins and ridiculous Lycra outfits, it's impossible not to have a smile on your face. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Catherine Martin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We owe it to ourselves and to our policy makers to have a high standard of public debate about the future of our energy supplies. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mark Walport 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wayne Gerard Trotman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Louis Kahn