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When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

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• The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.

  

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• By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

  

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• I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

  

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• I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

  

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• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

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• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  

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• Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

  

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.

  

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• This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

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• By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Mind
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• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
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• Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
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• I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

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• We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

  

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• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

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• I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.

  

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• My business acumen is definitely growing.

  

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• When I first started singing in Paris, I sounded horrible: I was just singing to get some money to eat. And I wasn't singing my own songs: it was Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix. Eventually, when I wrote my own music, my style just came out of my own place.

  

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  • Money
  • Style

• Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
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• I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

  

  Luther Allison

• I used to be able to do the Chinese splits, where you open your legs sideways.

  

  Kylie Minogue
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• When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

  

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