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I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

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• Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.

  

  Nas
  • Time
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• I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'

  

  Felicity Huffman
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• Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

  

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• I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

  

  Victoria Principal
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• I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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  • More
  • Concentration

• Turkey is fine, but if I don't have the sides, forget about it. And cornbread stuffing is at the center of my plate. I will have about six sides and then a little bit of turkey and gravy.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Forget
  • Will
  • Sides

• I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Life
  • Person
  • Fantastic

• When I first played '1234' it was on stage in San Francisco at some kind of, like, sticky-floored club. And it felt like a punk song. I mean it's ridiculous to say that now, but it had that kind of, like, piercing straight melody. And then this fist-pumping ending, you know that pa-dap-pada.

  

  Feist
  • Song
  • Know
  • Ending

• Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Different
  • Ambition
  • Champion

• Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • World
  • Live
  • Shadows

• I make the best eggplant parmigiana. Except maybe my mother. The way she makes it is delicious. If I told you how, I'd have to kill you.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Mother
  • Delicious
  • Eggplant

• The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Place
  • Internet
  • Reach

• I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.

  

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  • Time
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• As the leader of Southeast Asia's oldest democracy, I am always keen to share our experiences. In the half-century since independence, we have found that steady reform is the best way to secure lasting stability. It is a process that continues in Malaysia to this day.

  

  Najib Razak
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• Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• Gale and Shapley assumed that each person has a given ranking among potential mates that determines rather than is determined by the equilibrium sorting.

  

  Gary Becker

• Pleasant, liquors of the mead-brewer to the multitude; Also pleasant, a songster generous, amiable. Pleasant, the open field to cuckoos and the nightingale; Also pleasant when the weather is serene.

  

  Taliesin

• pp. 56–57

  

  Arthur Eddington

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  Tom Hanks
  • Fall
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• You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Afraid
  • Hunger
  • Absence

• There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

  

  Lily Collins
  • May
  • Famous
  • Perception

• I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • World
  • Trying
  • Beautiful

• I'm not going to make my living out of beating my head against somebody else.

  

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