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You hear 9/11, it just makes you th... ADAM TIMMERMAN Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight... HANS ZIMMER Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of ... DAVID BRODER In a post-9/11 world, everybody is looking over their shoulder and wondering if the next guy is the ... JODIE FOSTER I love you. I'm in the World Trade Center. The building was hit by something. I don't know if I'm go... LORIE VAN AUKEN You can't talk about dealing with this 11 million population unless you engage the 11 million. ANGELA KELLEY If you've got $20 million coming in and $30 million going out, sooner or later your wife's going to ... FELIX SABATES Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy ... ROALD DAHL I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting ... ROBERT MUELLER I think if you were a gambler and you had a million dollars, you should have gone to Las Vegas and b... C. VIVIAN STRINGER The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die fr... KATIE J. DAVIS When it seems you are having too much fun, then a switch turns on in your head and makes you think; ... A.H. SCOTT If God were to make a million lovely flowers in your image and plant them in a garden with you among... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a prob... ROBERT FULGHUM That will add about another $9 million into the local payroll. Our payroll is already over $20 milli... BOB MCANDREW You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL If anything good came out of 9/11, to me, was that people were so cynical about the world - all you ... ALAN JACKSON If you feel like you don't fit into the world you inherited it is because you were born to help crea... ROSS CALIGIURI The old formula was you raised $5 million in funding, you go into stealth mode. You think of a produ... JOHN ROBERTS I got into shape because I took kick-boxing lessons every day to prepare for a fight scene with Tayl... JASON ISAACS If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain b... ALETHEA KONTIS You will not see a firefighter holding my sign. You will not see my signs on a firefighter's lawn, ANTHONY O'BRIEN Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid... DAVID BRODER if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis... ELVIS HODZIC If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attack... BEN SHAPIRO And when you really think about the 9-11 event, the horrific attack on our land here in America and ... DONALD EVANS There are numerous images of the World Trade Center attacks in these ads and that is already drawing... HOWARD KURTZ If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write abo... RICHARD PRICE You can get a company to revenues in your lifetime. And you can get a company to profitable revenues... GERRY LANGELER If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birt... ELLEN DEGENERES Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you... VALERIE HARPER If you want something make it a priority. If you can't make it a priority, then it isn't something y... AKIROQ BROST There were no civilian or firefighter injuries. DON ARNOLD What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people... DAVID LEVITHAN If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words eve... URSULA K. LE GUIN You've been kissed by the shadows. You've crossed into Death, into the other side, and returned. Do ... RICHELLE MEAD Manipulative - selfish - always out to prove you wrong. Your words were twisted into something unrec... FAWN ARRINGTON It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their par... GUY LAFLEUR I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically ... JON RONSON We were looking at a deficit when we were working on that budget. The question to the Highway Patrol... SEN CLARK JENKINS People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween cand... HEATHER O'NEILL There are a million tiny weird towns. You never know what you're going to get into if you drive ... BILL CALLAHAN God is quite able to send you a million people today, but tomorrow they will all leave you again, if... PASTOR ADELAJA SUNDAY I understand them feeling like (if) he is going to get hurt on their property they are going to have... BUS COOK People are looking at me like I'm responsible for 9/11. Me? 9/11? No ... 7-Eleven, maybe. AZHAR USMAN There was no attempt to determine who was accountable on the 9/11 Commission. This time, there's got... KRISTEN BREITWEISER I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and wh... LAURA DERN My takeaway from all of Ophelia's sessions was that life favored value. The world was bursting with ... FRAN SEEN People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrail... HOLLY BLACK If I could talk someone into creating a Spike TV belt, I'd be damn proud to wear it. When you fight ... STEPHAN BONNAR
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STEVEN TYLER When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it ... STEVEN ADLER My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last ... STEVEN TYLER You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. ... STEVEN SEAGAL We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning a... STEVEN PINKER The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them th... STEVEN SPIELBERG If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes fro... STEVEN JOHNSON I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. STEVEN WRIGHT I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an... STEVEN WRIGHT I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' STEVEN WRIGHT I intend to live forever. So far, so good. STEVEN WRIGHT I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There... STEVEN SPIELBERG Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend. STEVEN SPIELBERG Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me. STEVEN ADLER It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And t... STEVEN ADLER I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller. STEVEN ADLER You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you hav... STEVEN ADLER I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty year... STEVEN ADLER The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I wo... STEVEN ADLER You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You c... STEVEN ADLER You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge. STEVEN ADLER Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrum... STEVEN ADLER Loud is a way of life. STEVEN ADLER The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that ... STEVEN ADLER Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling r... STEVEN ADLER I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look f... STEVEN ADLER I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family. STEVEN ADLER Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my g... STEVEN ADLER If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, ... STEVEN ADLER I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself. 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