I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I did a Christmas tour and I sang on that and the response I got was people want to hear more of… — Chi Chi DeVayne Copy Share Image
The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way.… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
I very rarely read the responses to my Salon pieces, because (as you may have noticed) the trolls can be SO evil.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle. — Irving Greenberg Copy Share Image
Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?' — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
Obviously, there's a big homage to Outland in Moon. I obviously had Ridley Scott's response, which was great. But Peter Hyams really… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle...he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice. — Balthazar Getty Copy Share Image
Corporations, in the name of efficiency, suppress variation by "getting all the ducks in line."To optimize productivity, they evolve highly refined and… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
There are two ways to respond to the trials and tribulations of our present and past . . . 'Ain't it awful?'… — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With… — George Greer Copy Share Image
Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Considering mankind's indifference to freedom, their easy gullibility and their facile response to conditioning, one might very plausibly argue that collectivism is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
What history teaches us is that man does not change arbitrarily; he does not transform himself at will on hearing the voices… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image