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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.
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Professionally, I feel like I won the lottery and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.


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They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.
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I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.
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Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
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I remember finding 'Harold and Maude' strangely erotic. I've always had an octogenarian fetish.


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I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.


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I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
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People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it out across the world. But that has happened with the kind of enemy we are now facing.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
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I was always talking in weird voices from the time I was two. I guess I just found a way to keep doing it! I did get a degree in theater and took some voice-over classes... but most of it is just the same stuff I was doing as a kid!
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It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.
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Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Anne Wojcicki
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
Vesta Williams
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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
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It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.


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I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising.
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It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
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I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.


Matthew Fox
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