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I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Broken
  • Nation
  • Divided

• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Family
  • Name
  • Vote

• The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Today
  • Science
  • Humanities

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Up
  • Home
  • Pretty

• This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Society
  • Never
  • Crime

• Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Life
  • Hell

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Help
  • Interesting
  • Bike

• I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Australia

• We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Black
  • Community
  • Drug

• As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Hate
  • Listen

• I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.

  

  Ice T
  • Rapper
  • Front

• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Greatest

• I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Light
  • Baby
  • Mood

• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• My mom is the most amazing woman ever. She grew up a single mom raising five kids, and she's always told me to follow my dreams. One thing I've learned about her is she sacrificed her whole life for me to focus on my dream, and I cannot wait to do that for my kids.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• I don't ever get too literal.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes

• The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

  

  Edwin Booth
  • Darkness
  • Translations
  • Delicacy

• Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that old craving for the absolute that you absorbed in your nurseries. You'd like science to give you all the answers at one go, whereas we're only just beginning to understand it, and it'll probably never be anything but an eternal quest. And so you repudiate science, you fall back on religion, and religion won't have you any more. Then you relapse into pessimism...Yes, it's the disease of our age, of the end of the century: you're all inverted Werthers.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Men
  • Age
  • Science

• Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • War
  • Earth

• Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Up
  • Success
  • Deep

• I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Men
  • Alone
  • Leave