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		'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here.'
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. G. Ballard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brown Campbell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barnett Newman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Safra A. Catz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vince Clarke 
			 
			
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		You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zac Hanson 
			 
			
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		My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pamela Sargent 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irvine Welsh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nate Ruess 
			 
			
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		Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walker Stapleton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I went to Howard University and majored in Film Production and minored in Acting. I turned down an opportunity to go pro in Track & Field to do this - I took a chance with this. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lance Gross 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Winning excuses everything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cam Newton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I have been recognized from 'Mad Men,' and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jay R. Ferguson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mark Haddon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there's the kid who will be careful of it because it's his dad's car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that's how my whole life was. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				George Jung 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kristoffer Polaha 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Willa Cather 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. G. Ballard