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I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

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• I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Guy
  • Feeling

• Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Parents
  • Support

• I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Know
  • Rock

• You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Women
  • Bond

• I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Stop

• Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Parents
  • Like
  • Poetry

• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Speak
  • Leave
  • Themselves

• 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' was two songs: the verse part and the talking part. Two different songs I couldn't finish. One day I was playing the main verse part of 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and after a few minutes I got frustrated, as normal, then started to play the other song, and realized they went together.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Together

• I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Me
  • Day
  • Model

• Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Play
  • Chance
  • Rules

• Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Thought
  • Would

• We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Small
  • Down

• A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Feeling
  • Moments
  • Boy

• He asked her twice to come along;They said good-bye at the break of dawn.'Cause you can't hold back the wind,If it's meant to be again,Then someday he'll find his way back to her arms.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Good
  • Wind

• The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • World

• No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

  

  Jan Egeland
  • People

• I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Way

• And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Heart
  • Suffer

• Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.

  

  Dan S. Kennedy
  • Opportunity
  • Goals
  • Meaningful

• For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Good
  • Men
  • Science

• I was a punk rocker. A full-bore, 1st-generation punk.

  

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