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		When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You can hear so many influences in it, from the blues to Bach, and it's not just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus. They start off singing a cappella, almost like a Bach chorale, and the song goes into this bluesy guitar riff.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		You have to find out how to become the character. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kara Hayward 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eden Hazard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dan Jenkins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nathalie Sarraute 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fidel Castro 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Taylor Lautner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Iris Apfel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Chrisette Michele Payne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ne-Yo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When the Beatles wrote 'Paperback Writer,' it couldn't have been the same old thing. You can hear so many influences in it, from the blues to Bach, and it's not just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus. They start off singing a cappella, almost like a Bach chorale, and the song goes into this bluesy guitar riff. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jon Batiste