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Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
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  • Remember

• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
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• I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Want
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  • Sick

• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
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• I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.

  

  Halsey
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• I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

  

  Oksana Baiul
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• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
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  • Identity

• She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.

  

  Fay Wray
  • May
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• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
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• I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Different
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• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Science
  • Universe

• I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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  • Down
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• I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
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• I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

  

  Damian Marley
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• For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
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• A little-recognized value of listening and inquiring relates to the realization that in human relationships, it is frequently not what the I've learned ... that it is best to give advice in only two circumstances: when it is requested and when it is a life-threatening situation.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
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• For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Women
  • History
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• If I couldn't do it my way, I'd best stay at home.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
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• Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.

  

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