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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

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• I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • World
  • House

• Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Dream
  • Year
  • Jazz

• My first car was a motorcycle.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Car
  • First
  • Motorcycle

• Incommensurables cannot be compared.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Cannot
  • Compared

• It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Fun
  • Hanging
  • Bell

• I'm very open-minded.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Very
  • Open-minded

• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Music
  • Watch
  • Press

• When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Kids
  • Trouble
  • Opportunities

• If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Writing
  • Movies

• As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Truth
  • Perspective
  • Comedian

• Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Technology

• You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Never
  • Loss

• When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Cool
  • Doing
  • Superhero

• Life is always at some turning point.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Life
  • Always
  • Turning Point

• When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Heritage

• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Home
  • Game
  • Girl

• I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Learned
  • Prize
  • Companions

• The actor who lets the dust accumulate on his Ibsen, his Shakspere [sic], and his Bible, but pores greedily over every little column of theatrical news, is a lost soul.

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Reading
  • Literature
  • Theatrical

• I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Attention
  • Win

• Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Money
  • Strong

• Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

  

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