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If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

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• I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • Same
  • Motivational

• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Dwell

• I didn't intend to introduce food so early, but she became very interested at about 5 months, and I just gave her whatever sort of nutrient-rich food I had. Her first food was smoked trout.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • She
  • Food
  • Early

• It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Yoga

• I am a contrarian.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Contrarian

• How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Week

• The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Play
  • Fire

• After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• The Japanese have different words for love. To them, it's plain weird that we love spaghetti and love our children and love our lovers, all with the same word, when surely the thing being described as love is radically different in each case.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Different
  • Children
  • Love

• I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Movie
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• The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Being
  • Activity
  • University

• 'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Shine

• I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never piss on a piece of stone at the fucking Alamo at nine o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober. I mean I know I'm a fucking crazy-ass but still.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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  • Crazy

• I am a writer an a singer of the words I write I am no speaker nor any politician an my songs speak for me because I write them in the confinement of my own mind an have t cope with no one except my own self.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Mind
  • Words

• They put you in your place, and they tell you to behaveBut no one can be free until we're all on even grade.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Free

• Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • War
  • Peace

• I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

  

  Vito Fossella
  • Thinking
  • Cutting
  • Made

• If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
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• She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Breath
  • Angels
  • Died

• We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Spiritual
  • Cannabis

• Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
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• If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

  

  Dave Hickey