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At 13, I learned what it meant to walk into a room and not care what everybody thinks of you.

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• The brain abhors discrepancies.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Brain
  • Abhors

• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Couple
  • Doing
  • Him

• I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?

  

  Becky Lynch
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Small
  • Rights
  • Senate

• Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Earth

• Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Long
  • Black
  • Freedom

• I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Peace
  • Soldier

• 'You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Time
  • She
  • Happy

• His wife 'ruled the roost,' and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Wife

• scorn relations with the imperialist Government of the United States, a Government of genocide and decadence..We have supported, we are supporting and we shall sup port revolutionary movements in Latin America...We feel very well outside the O.A.S., in fact better than inside. The O.A.S. is an organization that is bound to disappear.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • America
  • Organization
  • Latin

• When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Remember
  • Baby
  • Calm

• Is 'I hope you all die a painful death' too strong?

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Strong

• I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!

  

  Ai Weiwei

• As for Sisley, I just can't enjoy his work visiting the Paris Impressionism-exhibition of art-dealer M. Petit, May 1887, it is commonplace, forced, disordered; Sisley has a good eye, and his work will certainly charm all those whose artistic sense is not very refined.

  

  Alfred Sisley
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music school I wanted to attend, printed out the details, and handed them to my parents.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Life
  • Death

• To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

  

  Archie Shepp
  • People
  • Music

• I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to move once, you know.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • True
  • Mother
  • Study

• I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it.

  

  Jorge Garcia
  • Dark

• It doesn't matter who other people are saying the favourite is; I'm still going in to win the gold medal.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • People
  • Gold

• At 13, I learned what it meant to walk into a room and not care what everybody thinks of you.

  

  Bozoma Saint John