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		I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mackenzie Astin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vijender Singh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vaughn Monroe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gabourey Sidibe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Earl Warren 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Magda Apanowicz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pat Benatar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Natasha Lyonne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oscar Pistorius 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rakul Preet Singh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gary Oldman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				S. Truett Cathy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Arthur Schopenhauer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Amanda Donohoe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The neatest thing about research and science is we don't necessarily know what's going to come down the pike. We think we know what we're working on. Oftentimes, discoveries are made when you're trying to discover something else. You end up accidentally discovering a different thing. So, one of those things might happen that enable us to have more efficient rockets. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Leroy Chiao 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Natasha Trethewey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's actually very important to put a little foundation up into your hairline, or else it looks like your face is not yours - like someone just Photoshopped it on! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barbara Palvin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mackenzie Astin