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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

• I'm a klutz, through and through.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Through

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• 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

• Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.

  

  Ben McKenzie
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Worry

• The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Song
  • Irrational
  • Realm

• I started really noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women's work... I've noticed that it just happens a lot.

  

  Dolores Huerta
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• It's complimacated. (sounds like compli-ma-kayted, emphasis on first syllable) 16

  

  Ze Frank

• Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Life
  • Walk

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