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		I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dita Von Teese 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oliver Ellsworth 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Raekwon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zadie Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kaskade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Hunt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T-Pain 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hanya Yanagihara 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tavi Gevinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Chaplin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harrison Ford 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wanda Sykes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachelle Lefevre 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nate Holland 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Ogilvy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Justin Timberlake 
			 
			
				NSYNC  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Russell Peters 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dita Von Teese