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• No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Think
  • Generation
  • Dinosaur

• I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Industry
  • Greatest

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Journey
  • End

• Barley and mushroom is a soothing combination. It's mainly a textural thing, with the barley both gently breaking and enhancing the mushroomy gloopiness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Breaking
  • Soothing
  • Mushroom

• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Work
  • Age
  • Guy

• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Diamonds

• In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • You
  • Miss
  • Grades

• Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Black
  • Color
  • Black-and-white

• I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Look

• Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • You
  • Present
  • Yesterday

• I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • You
  • Need
  • Honest

• I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Birthday

• I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Influence

• It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Effort

• You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Stop

• I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Home
  • Sun
  • Sea

• Everything I do with my day is related to Superwoman. I'm either doing conference calls or writing a script or reading a script, editing a video, shooting a video.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Writing
  • Reading

• EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • World
  • Trying
  • Resistance

• Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Bad
  • Leadership
  • Opportunities

• Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Experience
  • Black

• What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

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  Plautus