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The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
Wadada Leo Smith
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
F. Sionil Jose
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
Zach Johnson
The Fray
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
Dan Rather
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
Edmund Morgan
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
Natalie Babbitt
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
Patricia Heaton
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
V. S. Naipaul
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
Ian Mckellen
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Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
Haile Gebrselassie
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
Kate Atkinson
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
Felix Dennis
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Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.
Joanne Rowling
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
Jackie Evancho
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A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The way I define what I do is, basically, I do whatever I want.
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