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		The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ranbir Kapoor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sam Brownback
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ildar Abdrazakov
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laura Osnes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Iggy Azalea
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oliver Sacks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Baron d'Holbach
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aaron Swartz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Edward R. Murrow
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every piece of hardware or software in the digital universe. To code or create for Apple, you follow Apple's rules. If you're even allowed to.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Douglas Rushkoff
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I get enormous satisfaction from knowing I'm doing something for society.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Neil deGrasse Tyson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Christine Lakin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wayne McGregor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eli Wallach
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Wolcott
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we as black people tap into a divine system that a lot of other cultures and races can't tap into and that system allows us to prosper in spite of everything that's been thrown our way from slavery to segregation to mass incarceration. We have a privilege pre-ordained by God that nothing and no one can stop.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charlamagne Tha God
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ismail Merchant