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When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had'.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

When I lose the sense of motivation and the sense to prove something as a basketball player, it's time for me to move away from the game.

When I miss a week in practice, my audience knows it. When I miss a day, I know it.

When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

When I'm in Miami I like to go and watch basketball, the Miami Heat.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.

When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

When in doubt, take the next step.

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.

When in doubt, look intelligent.

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts....But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal. And it has nothing to do with money. I mean, you buy clothes with money, and cars. But I really wanted to work with people I enjoyed working with, who I admired and liked.

When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.

When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

When it gets hot like this, you know what I do? I keep my undies in the ice box.

When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.