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Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.

Cinema has only been around for about 100 years. Has all of the world's violence towards women taken place only within the past 100 years?

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.

One of my biggest personal holdings is Rotana. That company has a very dominant force in the Middle East. It has around 45% of all the movie industry and around 75% of all the music.

I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.

We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be the person that he was and how he comes to be this man that jumps around in the Bat suit.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?

I've never been in a band where someone goes, 'Ah, I've got the perfect name! And it's because I climbed Mount Fuji, and at the top a golden dove came down...' It's always a bunch of guys sitting around going, 'How about Rotten Chipmunks?'

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life - have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel.

Unlike many graduate fellowships, the Rhodes seeks leaders who will 'fight the world's fight.' They must be more than mere bookworms. We are looking for students who wonder, students who are reading widely, students of passion who are driven to make a difference in the lives of those around them and in the broader world.