— John Hughes
"Relax. No one else knows what they're doing either."
— Ricky Gervais
"If somebody would ask what is it that you breathe that's not air, but that's what you need, it's art. I have to see it constantly. It's not even like 'O.K., I'm going to look at art in the evening'; it's all day long."
— Raf Simons, Chief Creative Officer at Calvin Klein
"Just think of all the things that have come and gone in our lifetimes, all the would-be futures we watched age into obsolescence – CD, DVD, answering machine, Walkman, mixtape, MTV, video store, mall. There were still some rotary phones around in our childhood – now it’s nothing but virtual buttons. We are the last generation to grow up with crappy video games, with actual arcades instead of quality home consoles. If you wanted to play, you had to leave the house and mix it up with the ruffians. That is, we are the last Americans to have the old-time childhood, wherein you were assigned a bully along with a homeroom teacher. Our childhood was closer to those of the 1950s than to whatever they’re doing today. It was coherent, hands-on, dirty, and fun."
— Vanity Fair magazine, Why Generation X Might Be Our Last, Best Hope by Rich Cohen
"I lived to see the jokes about the possibility of these motors displacing the horse fade away and automobiles fill the streets and cover the nations."
— W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868–1963, from The Autobiography of W.E.B. Dubois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century
"I grew up in a simpler time, in an America where you didn't instantly download the newest hit single on your phone... no, sir, you bought 12 CDs for a penny, with the stipulation that you purchase the 8th CD at the regular club price. That CD was a rip-off, and their selection sucked, but it was a good way to stock up on greatest-hits albums.... I was the first in my family to go to online college... I'll never forget the day I received my diploma, because it went into the spam folder.... I proudly showed it off to my parents, after updating my Flash Player, since it was an animation. It turned out the attachment had a virus, and some guys in Nigeria demanded a thousand bucks or they'd delete all my files.... I have a wonderful woman I share my life with now, Lucy. I met her two nights ago on Tinder..."
— Vanity Fair magazine, a humor piece by Teddy Wayne
"You gotta really stay sharp.... You gotta be sharp."
— Tom Brady
"It's year-round, and I try to make a big commitment... I put a lot of effort in... I spend a lot of time working at it... it takes effort and discipline, but as long as I can do that I know I can be successful on the field."
— Tom Brady ... or ...
"Well, I'm always working on my techniques, my fundamentals, I mean, I think that's a daily thing for me because you don't wanna just... you know, I always think you can get a percentage or two off a week and over the course of five weeks, you're 10% off where you want to be, whether certain quarterbacking techniques or, you know, things like that, so you gotta really stay sharp. So I film a lot of those things so I can watch it daily, know really what I'm looking for, and, you know, you gotta be sharp.... I think everything keeps me up at night, the expectations are so high, the standards that have been set here are... they're just high, for everybody, and everybody wants to do a great job, and there's a lot of effort, and guys are putting in a lot of work.... I love being a part of it. I wake up everyday thinking about how I can help this team win and the work I need to put in so I can be really held accountable for what I do, so I can be really dependable for the team, and we've had a great thing goin' so hopefully we can keep doin' it.... I think (my lifestyle) is hugely important. I've just learned a certain way that works for me, and I try to incorporate those things into my daily life, and it's year-round, and I try to make a big commitment... I put a lot of effort in... I spend a lot of time working at it... it takes effort and discipline, but as long as I can do that I know I can be successful on the field."
— Tom Brady ... the guy is practically my age and still winning Super Bowls, and Super Bowl MVPs, he's won four – four! – Super Bowl MVPs, and don't forget he was drafted in the 6th round, he's not a perfect physical specimen, he has worked to get to the top... I was disappointed by 'deflategate' but his work ethic, discipline, and dedication to health and longevity is impressive
"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can."
— Danny Kaye
"A scorpion must sting. A wolf must hunt."
— Wonder Woman
"I didn't have any fear about being too personal. I said what I wanted to say; I was talking to myself."
— Charlotte Gainsbourg, on the songs she wrote for her 'revealing' fifth album, Rest
"Leaders set the culture. Federer gives lie to the notion that top athletes must have a nasty streak. For all the metaphors bestowed on the guy, you will not hear him likened to an 'assassin' or a 'cold killer' or, for that matter, a 'tiger.' Federer generally performs with a smile on his face and an unruffled demeanor. He treats his colleagues as opponents, not enemies. He's played his entire career absent controversy, much less scandal. This affects the entire tennis culture."
— Sports Illustrated magazine
"I'm not introverted the way some (politicians) have been, but I'm not an F.D.R. or a Bill Clinton either, who are just constantly in a crowd and relishing it. I like my quiet time. There's a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back. But I do think that I am generally optimistic. I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of progress are real."
— Barack Obama, Vanity Fair magazine
"Early in my presidency, I went to Cairo to make a speech to the Muslim world. And in the afternoon, after the speech, we took helicopters out to the pyramids. And they had emptied the pyramids for us, and we could just wander around for a couple hours at the pyramids and the Sphinx. And the pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe. And you're going to these tombs and looking at the hieroglyphics and imagining the civilization that built these iconic images. And I still remember... thinking to myself, there were a lot of people during the period when these pyramids were built (who considered themselves) really important... people anguishing over their relative popularity or position... (but all that's left) today are the pyramids. Sometimes I carry with me that perspective, which tells me that my particular worries on any given day – how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me, for good or for ill – isn't particularly relevant. What's relevant is: What am I building that lasts."
— Barack Obama, Vanity Fair magazine
"When I ran for Congress in 2007... I finished a fight in San Antonio, then flew to the Philippines to campaign. I wasn't prepared. I lost.... There's a lot of poverty in my province. I wanted to represent them. I came from the dirt like everyone else.... Some people thought I would not try again, but I came up with a better plan... and I won.... I schedule my training and fights around congressional recesses... I don't think about retiring right now. I want to fight more. I pray that, with God's will, I can. I didn't worry about my boxing career because I'm good at managing my time.... I've learned good lessons from my mistakes.... What I don't like about politics is the corruption.... Public service is my calling."
— Manny Pacquiao
"What looks like arid scrubland contains countless Indian burial grounds and other sites sacred to the tribes who lived there: the Nez Perce, the Umatilla, and the Yakama. For 13,000 years or so prior to the white man's arrival the place had been theirs. To them the American experiment is no more than the blink of an eye."
— Vanity Fair magazine
"(In Cambodia) I found a people who were so kind and warm and open, and, yes, very complex. You drive around here (Los Angeles), you can see a lot of people with many things, but not often expressing happiness. You go there, and you see the families come out with their blanket and their picnic to watch a sunset."
— Angelina Jolie
"Here we don't shout. We talk."
— Rith Pahn, in Cambodia, yelling is not just disrespectful, it's also considered a sign of weakness
"I was very worried about my mother, growing up, a lot. I don't want my children to be worried about me. I think it's very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything's going to be all right even when you're not sure it is."
— Angelina Jolie
"Let's embrace being not normal."
— Angelina Jolie
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