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And why not tap it? S... JIM CANTALUPO I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no win... FRANK GEHRY The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we c... ALBERT CAMUS The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and t... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy ... GALE GORDON The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn'... DAVID BAILEY I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. ... AMERICA FERRERA I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world... ANNE LAMOTT From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be... STEPHEN LABERGE I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy f... LOUIS FREEH This was not an easy test. I played out there today and the course was wet and playing long. If you ... DENNIS ERLICH There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of... JULIANNE MOORE My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the... TAJ MAHAL Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in th... DREW GILPIN FAUST No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening ... KENNETH TYNAN Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a camera... DENNIS MUREN Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse,... CASSANDRA CLARE That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil, JACK STRAW I literally got a private invite for lunch with the Queen. There was just 10 of us. And I was absolu... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an a... JEFF COHEN We realized there was an urgent need for such a product, and that it was a very large market, giving... AVNER GAL Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of... MICHAEL MOORCOCK My thinking was scrambled when Sullivan and I separated. Something happened to me that had never hap... HENRY FONDA If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. OSCAR WILDE The rest of the band had a cynical view towards the way 'Tusk' was made and the reasons why ... LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as on... ROHINTON MISTRY He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creat... LEO TOLSTOY In that world, there was no money. We had food and clothing, but we had no money. I like the world t... BRUTON SMITH I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I&... BRYAN ADAMS I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me be... MADONNA CICCONE It was taken very seriously. There was no way of knowing it was a hoax. It had to be treated as if i... LARAE QUY I couldn't make ends meet. I tried Red Lobster. I tried Wal-Mart. I tried all these places and I... ANNA NICOLE SMITH There was no child oncology in Uzbekistan and in Russia you don't have a chance because there ar... OXANA CHUSOVITINA Any way you slice it, he was outstanding. There were several times when there was some serious thump... TONY LA RUSSA There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was ac... PATRICK NESS Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was ... GEORGE ORWELL There was an opportunity to change things up a bit and get some new chemistry going. It was really g... DAVE BORELLI When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just under... GARY VAYNERCHUK It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the ... PRISCILLA PRESLEY He was dominant. The leg cradle was there. If you see it there, you go get it and he did. JACK CULLEN Before that there was no apple crisp market. Some firms had tried to break into it but they foundere... FINLAY LOCKIE There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. One... 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The wealth of nations is m... RICHARD HOVEY The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical. RICHARD OWEN Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of som... RICHARD POWERS I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don'... RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH We all recall what is or was important to us and are astonished when it slips other people's min... RICHARD CORLISS A home movie of a fictional home life, an epic assembled from vignettes, 'Boyhood' shimmers ... RICHARD CORLISS Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a conti... RICHARD MITCHELL Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone s... RICHARD MITCHELL Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as ... RICHARD MITCHELL Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui... RICHARD MCKENNA Above us was a canopy, the stretching arms of cedar and spruce and Douglas fir. We knew to follow in... RICHARD PAYMENT The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibil... RICHARD ROHR No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 ... RICHARD CORLISS I’ll affect you slowly as if you were having a picnic in a dream. There will be no ants... RICHARD BRAUTIGAN As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the diff... RICHARD WHATELY Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be worth the Nobel Prize. RICHARD FEYNMAN Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each sid... RICHARD ENGEL How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyo... RICHARD DAWKINS The visual team of 'Blade Runner' - one of the last big fantasy movies to be made without mu... RICHARD CORLISS In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This ... RICHARD CORLISS 'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and m... RICHARD CORLISS