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James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

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• I'm not a babysitter.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Babysitter

• 'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.

  

  Flume
  • First
  • Really
  • Sleepless

• I want to be up front racing.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Up
  • Want
  • Racing

• I'd love to be on scripted TV shows and movies, but not just one - I want to be in a lot of them! I'd also love to sing and possibly be on Broadway. I want to do it all.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Movies
  • Sing
  • Possibly

• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Purpose

• I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • True
  • Man

• Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I'm a very independent woman.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Woman
  • Independent
  • Independent Woman

• But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Nature
  • Community
  • Ukrainian

• You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Human
  • See
  • Glass

• I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Love
  • Funny
  • Woman

• Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • War
  • Morning

• When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Women
  • Children
  • Alone

• Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Living
  • London
  • Luxury

• Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Art
  • Age

• 'Everyone exploits somebody.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury

• An expensive arms race, under cover of the military metaphysic, and in a paranoid atmosphere of fright, is an economically attractive business. To many utopian capitalists, it has become the Business Way of American Life.'

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Life
  • Business
  • American

• Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Trees
  • Acres

• When I started off in journalism, you knew there was an audience out there and that you wanted people to read what you produced. But it also felt like you had a limited ability to shape the audience, or to acquire an audience, for what you were doing. So you didn't really think too much about that.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • People

• If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

  

  Jessye Norman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

  

  Don King