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I like to move around. It suits me. I grew up in Wiltshire on a farm, and that's the only place I call home.

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• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • You
  • Movies
  • Got

• I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.

  

  Ed Belfour
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• I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
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  • Home
  • Empathy

• The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
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• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

  

  Harland Williams
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• I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
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• Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Home
  • Fireside

• A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

  Utah Phillips
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• As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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  • Music

• I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  

  Iris Johansen
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• I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.

  

  Zak Orth
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• I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pays me money. You have no idea. I should be on a fishing boat with my dad.

  

  Kevin Williamson
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Boat

• You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Thinking

• The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'...that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

  

  Elizabeth Montgomery
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• In Geneva, I was seen as an outsider. In the U.S., I was considered Eurotrash. And in London, I'm seen as an American.

  

  Danny Rimer
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• I like to move around. It suits me. I grew up in Wiltshire on a farm, and that's the only place I call home.

  

  Eliot Sumner
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