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Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

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• Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • Best
  • Politicians
  • Seriously

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Create

• When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Happy
  • Humanity

• I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Job
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • School
  • War
  • High

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Myself

• I've always driven big SUVs. I'm from Maine, and there's a point to driving a big SUV in Maine. I don't really need a 4WD in L.A., but on the 405, people are crazy, and you need a tank. I like the visibility factor.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Driving

• Women put guys through tests all the time.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Time
  • Women
  • Tests

• Negative politics have always been around.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Negative

• I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Wise
  • Rejection
  • Depressing

• I had a good political career, and I have a good business career. I didn't get the brass ring, but I did very well.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Business
  • Career

• God's knowledge extends to things not in existence, and includes also the infinite.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Knowledge

• The wraith of Sigmund said. 'You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Religious

• 'They would say,' he answered, 'that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Lost

• Man geht immer die gleichen Wege des Denkens wie vorher. Nur scheinen sie mit Rosen bestreut.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Children

• To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Friends
  • Risk
  • Service

• I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Important
  • Kids

• Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

  

  Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Lost
  • Design

• Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Great
  • Explore
  • Greatness

• A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

  

  James C. Collins
  • Business
  • Culture
  • Discipline

• Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Greatness