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I remember endless Apple v. Windows debates in the early '90s when I was in college. Macs were better machines, everyone said;…

— Michael Arrington

My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose…

— Georgia May Jagger

When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because…

— Joseph Jarman

My early interactions with VCs were really, really poor.

— Tobias Lutke

My family supported me. I wasn't hot-housed at all as a young child; I didn't go to any kind of gifted school.…

— Daniel Tammet

'Cosmos' wouldn't deserve its place in primetime evening network television were it not a landscape on which compelling stories were told. People,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I love my mum and dad, but they were shocking providers and carers.

— Jimmy Barnes

I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out…

— Jessye Norman

The so-called 'last golden age,' in the 1970s, most of those movies were independent films.

— Michael Douglas

We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard,…

— Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that.

— Timothy Noah

George Murphy tagged that name 'Butch' on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names…

— Cesar Romero

Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where…

— Omar Dorsey

I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.

— Spike Jonze

I feel very blessed to have four brothers. My brothers always say, 'Oh, you know, we prepared you for the world of…

— Maria Shriver

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

— Karen Maitland

I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to…

— Pete Townshend

I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I…

— Hannah Simone

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the…

— Andrew Young

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

— Mitch Kapor

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.

— Sun Yat-sen

While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes…

— Marianne Williamson

I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the time in…

— Edgar Winter

One must remember that in the '70s, Democrats still grasping for Camelot were desperately pinning their hopes on Teddy while Republicans were…

— Chuck Todd

We were very young during Viva. A lot of people told us what to make.

— Neha Bhasin

The special counsel regulations were written to provide the public with confidence that justice was done.

— Neal Katyal

A fan sent me a pair of fluffy winter socks, and I was like, 'Oh, that's cool. I'll wear them to bed.…

— Ella Henderson

You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders…

— Jose Manuel Barroso

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

— James Nesbitt

If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98…

— Frank Abagnale

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.

— Teju Cole

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits…

— Sean Paul

I'd had two miscarriages before Emily and there were more after her.

— Amanda Redman

I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted…

— Arto Lindsay

I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were…

— Cameron Mackintosh

As a child, people were always trying to photograph and film me because it's a way for a shy person to find…

— Bruce Weber

Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence…

— Jonathan Nolan

I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

— Bill Gurley

I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.

— Henry Allingham