“I’ve been really into Ayn Rand.”
- Angelina Jolie

“Atlas Shrugged is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.”
- Rob Lowe

“When somebody breaks out and completely shatters the mold, it’s inspiring.”
- Sandra Bullock on The Fountainhead

“My favorite book is The Fountainhead.”
- Christina Ricci

"Mind-expanding."
- Anne Hathaway on Atlas Shrugged

"Self-confidence, rational, ambition, and lovability. Oh, and he has to be an Ayn Rand fan."
-Eva Mendes, describing what she looks for in a man.

"It’s incredibly motivating to me."
- Mark Cuban on The Fountainhead

"I was drawn again and again to . . . Atlas Shrugged."
- Frank Miller, creator of Sin City, 300, and The Dark Knight Returns

"It had a profound effect on me."
- Hugh Hefner, on The Fountainhead

"He's my favorite."
- Billy Beane on Howard Roark

"The book really turned me around, because, at the time, I was going through a bad period in tennis and thinking about quitting."
- Billie Jean King on Atlas Shrugged

"Atlas Shrugged"
- Adam Vinatieri, champion Patriots and Colts kicker, sharing his favorite book

"Ayn Rand helped me to understand human liberation in a deeper-than-political sense."
- Sociology professor Anne Wortham

"After reading Atlas Shrugged I burned with a desire to change the world.
- Bob Poole, founder, the Reason Foundation

"Rand succeeded in changing the intellectual landscape."
- Stephen Cox , professor of literature and director of the Humanities Program at the University of California, San Diego

"Reading the first four essays of The Romantic Manifesto was like a thunderbolt…"
- Michelle Marder Kamhi, scholar and critic.

"Rand's radicalism, though political in its implications, was more about the methodology of thinking."
- Chris Matthew Sciabarra, a visiting scholar in the department of politics at New York University

"Rand's egoism and her endorsement of rights [are] two equal facets of the root idea that each individual is a moral end-in-himself."
- Eric Mack, professor of philosophy at Tulane University

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