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The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

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• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Memorial
  • Parties
  • Cocktail

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Like
  • Look
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• I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Knows
  • Sister

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Love
  • Identity

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Doing

• This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Game
  • Day
  • Football

• Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Time
  • Home
  • Thought

• Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Army

• I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Knowledge
  • Old
  • Films

• Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Music
  • Popular
  • Try

• If I have the TV on, it's either a Mets game or 'SportsCenter.'

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • Game
  • TV
  • Mets

• I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Basketball

• I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Always
  • Never

• He who knows himself is enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Himself
  • Enlightened
  • He

• The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.

  

  Arthur Godfrey
  • Music
  • Business
  • Management

• In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Good
  • God
  • Different

• The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • Men

• The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?

  

  Jeff Bezos
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