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I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

I've talked a lot with Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem. Being on Team PokerStars with them has helped me out quite a bit. I've traveled around Europe playing with them. I've also talked with Robert Williamson here and there and Jim Worth. So I've had some good people to talk to and bounce ideas off of.

I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they?

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

I think quite spiritually of myself. I feel like I'm here to support the human evolution.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Goethe died in 1832. As you know, Goethe was very active in science. In fact, he did some very good scientific work in plant morphology and mineralogy. But he was quite bitter at the way in which many scientists refused to grant him a hearing because he was a poet and therefore, they felt, he couldn't be serious.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for.

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.