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A great laptop running the new kinds of user interfaces and apps that people now love on phones and tablets would be a big, exciting event that would help seal the deal. But there hasn't yet been a product that emphatically suggests the era of the traditional PC is fading.

Walt Mossberg

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LoveGreatPeopleHelpNewNow

If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

Joan Collins

LifeYouLemonadeLemonMakeThrows

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.

Anita Loos

LifeFakeAmericanAmericaYear

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.

Tony Curtis

ServiceNavyUpTenderPacific

I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.

Joy Harjo

NeverEveryoneFitKnewIndianDad

We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

Jason Silva

LiveWorldNewReasonImproveStick

Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

Jose Ferreira

LookingSayNextSafeBigSomething

In college, when a girlfriend asks you to watch a film in black and white, you do it. That's when I discovered a lot of films. I was really obsessed with Bergman, the whole world he creates. One that I always quote a lot is 'Autumn Sonata.' When you see women go through issues with their mom, you realize how right and poignant Bergman was.

Jonás Cuarón

WomenBlack And WhiteCollegeMomGo

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

Brian Molko

FreedomMeRock And RollHellRock

I would be stupid to say no to Bollywood. It is the biggest film industry in our country.

Prabhas

StupidCountrySayIndustryFilm

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.

Scott Turow

CharacterTogetherStartStoryYear

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.

Tom Allen

OpportunityChildrenHealthWarCare

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

Marlene Dietrich

BeautifulMePlayDesireAlwaysOut

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