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I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

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• I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • Space
  • Learn

• 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

• Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Virtue
  • Take

• The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Lost
  • Vision

• For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Important
  • Women
  • Independent

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• 'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Good
  • Game
  • Always

• For a really long time, I thought being different was a negative thing. But as I grew older, I started to realize we were all born to stand out; nobody is born to blend in.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I'm good at keeping secrets.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Good
  • Secrets
  • Keeping

• It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was fucking wrong, wasn't I? You see, because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, AND THE BLIZZARD WOULD HIT AGAIN!

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Travel

• Bush is no conservative.

  

  Bill Kristol

• Long-term economic growth depends mainly on nonmonetary factors such as population growth and workforce participation, the skills and aptitudes of our workforce, the tools at their disposal, and the pace of technological advance. Fiscal and regulatory policies can have important effects on these factors.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Growth

• The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

  

  Ned Rorem
  • Music

• Going from 300 pounds to 150 pounds was the biggest change of my whole life.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Life

• In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Animal
  • Survival

• My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.

  

  Dick Van Dyke

• I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break.

  

  Lee Daniels

• When I got the first e-mail suggesting we cast Zooey Deschanel in 'New Girl', I thought, 'That's exactly right.' In the pilot of 'Modern Family', when Cam is holding up the baby with the 'Lion King' theme, it was very clear we had something special.

  

  Dana Walden
  • Up
  • Family
  • Girl

• I am neither an Occidental writer nor a Russian writer. I am an accidental writer.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• I think the main thing is to find something you care about. A cause. I think it starts with others. Who do you look up to? Who do you want to help? Start in your own community.

  

  Max Carver
  • Up
  • Help
  • Community

• As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Religious
  • Lose

• I'm not a feminist.

  

  Marge Simon
  • Feminist

• In 'Star Wars: Episode II,' when Jango Fett is chasing Obi Wan Kenobi through an asteroid field, they needed a big asteroid to shatter into a million pieces, and I had to figure out how to do the fracturing, write the code, and show an artist how to use it.

  

  Masi Oka
  • Star

• I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

  

  Robert Wilson
  • Community
  • Religious
  • Museums