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on Arnold Schwarzenegger: "My line about Arnold is that he doesn`t get in his own way. He is not apologetic about achieving his goals. And when you have that attitude, it`s amazing what one can accomplish. He wanted to give me relationship advice. I was having trouble with a female friend, and he said, be really forthright and do not accommodate her needs excessively. I took his advice and we`re not friends anymore. So there you go."

- Claire Danes

My line about Arnold is that he doesn`t get in his own way. He is not apologetic about achieving his goals. And when you have that attitude, it`s amazing what one can accomplish. He wanted to give me relationship advice. I was having trouble with a female friend, and he said, be really forthright and do not accommodate her needs excessively. I took his advice and we`re not friends anymore. So there you go.

- Claire Danes

I`m sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that`s my general style.

- Felicity Huffman

When asked what he thought of Goodfellas (1990) when it first came out in 1990, he said: "I thought it was boring, excessively violent and not a good movie. I thought I was boring, I thought that I had hurt my career, I thought that this movie should not have been made and it`s not a good movie". He then said three hours later after thinking more about it, "Do you know, I`m kind of coming through a clearing here and I`m thinking that`s not a boring movie, that`s a good movie, that`s a great movie maybe, and I`m really good in it!"

- Paul Sorvino

We have often noted the Fed tries to choose a policy action that minimizes the consequences of a mistake. Which would have the least negative consequences today: easing too much and setting off an excessively strong rebound or easing too little and allowing the economy to slip back into recession? We would vote for the former.

- David Orr

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

- Alan Sandals

I`m sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that`s my general style.

- Alexis DeBram

But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

- Andra Turner

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom

- Albert Einstein

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

- Jean Anouilh