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		Even in novels where the love relationship isn't the focus, I feel like it's often there, and the background is some barometer of whether this is a happy or sad story or whether this is a successful or unsuccessful life.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elif Batuman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Harris 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Focus on being balanced - success is balance. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laila Ali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gallagher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tammy Duckworth 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kat Graham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				La India 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kaley Cuoco 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salma Hayek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cara Delevingne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I do believe in happy-ever-after. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tamara Ecclestone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lafcadio Hearn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Armstrong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahershala Ali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I do see your point, but to me, I'm just a mouse compared to the President of the United States. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jon Lovitz 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nick Cave 
			 
			
				The Birthday Party  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've already fallen in love with 20 guys since I've been here. The accents sound so intelligent. I love the way the guys are so classy and wear trench coats. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Miley Cyrus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Last year's team, you didn't know if we were going to win or lose, but you knew we were going to fight. We have some different ways to score now, but do we have the same type of personality? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Monson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even in novels where the love relationship isn't the focus, I feel like it's often there, and the background is some barometer of whether this is a happy or sad story or whether this is a successful or unsuccessful life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elif Batuman