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Related Did you think about quitting? JULIE CHEN By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if S... MARG HELGENBERGER Quitting is not giving up, it's choosing to focus your attention on something more important. Quitti... OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on persona... JAMES GORMAN With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious stru... LAUREN OLIVER They will also spend some time talking about the social issues. DANIEL PARK You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo... JOHN BOLTON I think I will realize that I have won gold in the next two or three days. Many times I've thought a... 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REED HASTINGS All in all, I think it's a great thing. You spend more time on the slopes than riding the lift. JEFF KORTH Are you indoctrinated? Think of anything you believe in be it religious or social, like economi... HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do... THOMAS HARDY I succeeded at venture capital because, for years, I rarely thought about or spent time on anything ... CHRIS SACCA Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If yo... RAMANA MAHARSHI My work is not directly about the social or political. A. BALASUBRAMANIAM You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of footb... CRAIG JOHNSTON I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a su... JODI PICOULT When you think of quitting, remember why you started! 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ANSARI Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f... RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison. MARY EVANS No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ... EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN The soul that is within me no man can degrade. FREDERICK DOUGLAS You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only... AZIM PREMJI The idea of making pictures abroad is exciting when you're in Hollywood and have never worked in... JEFFREY HUNTER Clearly, it was a crucial time because of the difficulties in the technology capital markets. We had... ERIK ANDERSON Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." STEVEN ERIKSON THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPE... 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BILL MAHER You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove... BRYAN SINGER Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS One of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make the... GERARD BUTLER At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orlean... TOM PIAZZA We choose this life in Mokia. Not because it is ‘primitive’ or ‘advanced,’ but because it is... BRANDON SANDERSON Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidat... BETTY WHITE If you quit on the process, you are quitting on the result. IDOWU KOYENIKAN I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero'... PETER COYOTE How lame do you have to be to spend your time like that on the Internet? Can't you do something more... 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STEVEN HATFILL Writing is an antidote for loneliness. STEVEN BERKOFF I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll c... STEVEN WRIGHT My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she lov... STEVEN WRIGHT Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to oth... STEVEN PINKER Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b... STEVEN WRIGHT Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could b... STEVEN TYLER 20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than t... STEVEN PINKER Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is on... STEVEN PINKER My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last ... STEVEN TYLER My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. STEVEN WRIGHT I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the ... STEVEN CHU My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced ... STEVEN CHU I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral ... STEVEN WRIGHT The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in. STEVEN GERRARD When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet... STEVEN KOTLER I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,... STEVEN MAGEE The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ... STEVEN JAMES When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that... STEVEN HALPERN The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. STEVEN CHU One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it h... STEVEN DEITZ I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches. STEVEN WRIGHT People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua... STEVEN SPIELBERG Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I ... STEVEN WRIGHT If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer? STEVEN WRIGHT Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. STEVEN WRIGHT My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l... STEVEN SPIELBERG I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh... STEVEN MOFFAT The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. STEVEN WEINBERG Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. STEVEN COALLIER You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows u... STEVEN WRIGHT The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them th... STEVEN SPIELBERG Loud is a way of life. STEVEN ADLER Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling r... STEVEN ADLER I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family. 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 guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There... STEVEN SPIELBERG