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China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call them gardens on the city scale. For example, Beijing has mountains, waters, lakes, bridges, towers. It was a very poetic city.

Ma Yansong

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BeautifulHistoryMountainsCity

'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

Joe Bastianich

LifeGoodManUglyPeopleStory

Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It's fun to play villains and character roles, of course - but I'm sure it's also fun to be a really big star and play the lead in everything, where all you have to do is show up and not blink.

Megan Mullally

CharacterFunYouPlayKnowNice

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden

LiveDaySomeoneDoingYouPerfect

I've always loved reading and always loved the movies. Storytelling is one of the oldest of human endeavors, and they give us our understanding of the world and our place in it. When I discovered that there were people who professionally were involved in the creation of stories, it was game over - I knew what I wanted to do it.

Stephanie Allain

PeopleWorldGameReadingLoved

I went away to college, and when I came back and was coaching at Pitt, if they would've offered me a 25-year contract to be the assistant coach, I would've taken it so fast. It was ideal. I was coaching one neighborhood over from where I grew up.

Mike McCarthy

CollegeMeCoachingBackFastCoach

'Fast Food Nation' was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

Lloyd Kaufman

FoodFastBoringFast FoodEat

I learned that one can always start again.

Jose Mujica

StartAlwaysAgainLearned

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.

Joseph Kosinski

LifeMeComputersLovedDetails

I get excited when we make a play. I get excited when we make a first down.

Jon Gruden

DownPlayFirstExcitedGetMake

A lot of people have this strategy where if they have a hard question they wait to ask it to the end of the interview because they think the person is going to walk out. But what they have to realize is, is that if the person walks out, they have a pretty successful story.

Chuck Klosterman

WalkPeopleWaitStoryThinkEnd

Basically, the body does have a vast amount of inbuilt anti-ageing machinery; it's just not 100% comprehensive, so it allows a small number of different types of molecular and cellular damage to happen and accumulate.

Aubrey de Grey

SmallBodyHappenDifferentJust

We have to keep up the fight for evidence-based science and policy.

Piers Corbyn

ScienceFightPolicyUpKeep

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