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I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

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• I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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• Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
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• Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
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• I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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• I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
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• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.

  

  AJ McLean
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• I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.

  

  Tamsin Greig
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• I feel that we don't have the luxury of asking whether or not the Palestinians and Israelis can achieve peace. I think we have to just ask the question of when and how.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• There's no question that the Kings have been, are, and can be great hosts for any major events.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• Flowers are happy things.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.

  

  Larry David
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• India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

  

  Gary Wright
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• I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

  

  Miley Cyrus
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• I`m down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I`m basically a good person … despite what you might read about me.

  

  Duff McKagan Guns N' Roses
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• I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it.

  

  Mike Posner
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• I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.

  

  Alexander McQueen
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• I'm never scared what people are gonna think about music that I make.

  

  Yelawolf
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• I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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