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While laziness comes in many forms, it usually has one direct effect. And that's that nothing gets accomplished.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.

I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.

I don't do too much outside of football during football season, because this is my job and I take it seriously. I don't do too much, don't really go out at all that much, don't eat out or anything, try to stay focused and stay to myself.

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

I love Evian face spray because it's a really easy way to just freshen up your face, especially if you're traveling on an airplane - I get really dry on airplanes.

Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.

I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down.

My retiring days are behind me - they're going to have to throw me out now.

I don't have a collection, but I have a thing with jackets. I really like jackets. Whether it's an '80s motorbike jacket, or a Victorian jacket. I could wear the same jeans every day for months, but the jacket would be the thing that would change a lot.

A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

As a writer, I live in the world of literature and ideas, but I entered that world as an emigre from a medieval fiefdom, the sports world of Michigan.

Apple has great marketing, among the best PR and marketing in the world.

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

I live a very normal life. I have friends, and I've always gone to school. The part that's not normal is that I've been working since I was 9 months old, but at the same time, it's completely normal to me.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

Its one thing to lose weight but its another thing to eat healthy.

Come November, the American people will have the chance to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today's rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people.

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

I have a huge ego - I know that. Do I worry about it? No, I think it's cool. I have a lot of fun.

In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms.