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• It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • World
  • Child
  • Touring

• I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.

  

  Kat Graham
  • More
  • Still
  • Brown

• I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Death
  • September
  • Innocence

• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Action
  • Little
  • Effect

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • She
  • Book
  • Remember

• I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Life
  • Business
  • Running

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Time
  • Live
  • Day

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Work
  • Talent

• No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Text

• All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Live
  • Suffering
  • Teach

• I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Food
  • Everybody
  • Georgia

• The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.

  

  Usher
  • Want
  • Like
  • See

• My children are my life. They're so spectacular.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Children
  • My Life

• It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Best
  • Years

• I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Drama

• Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • May
  • Law

• There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Life
  • Real
  • Experience

• Prayer is a method practised from ancient days, so it's very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we're just maintaining that routine.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • People
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• Dance is a great way to express yourself.

  

  Darcey Bussell
  • Great
  • Dance

• But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

  

  John W. Thompson
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