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• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Love
  • Support
  • Son

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Football

• They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Acting
  • Same
  • Laws

• No dream is ever chased alone.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Ever

• It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Long
  • Live
  • Job

• India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Health
  • Justice
  • Moral

• It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Real
  • Song
  • Me

• I can afford to say what I wish.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wish
  • Say
  • I Wish

• We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Time
  • Law

• This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • You
  • Class
  • Lower Class

• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Old Age

• The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • High
  • Measure
  • Fraud

• I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Risk

• I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Believe

• Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Mind
  • Search
  • Say

• It's important to read books and see people who look like you. It helps you know that you are not the only one or the weird one because you're a black girl and you are not seeing anyone who looks like you in these books.

  

  Marley Dias
  • People
  • Important
  • Black

• Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Live
  • Want

• I think writing and singing go together, but I treat them as two separate careers because I write for others. If I'm writing for myself, I prefer to be with the producer. And then we can vibe out and throw ideas back and forth, and I'll basically let the producer play me a bunch of beats until I vibe with one.

  

  Kehlani
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Singing

• Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Mind

• In the '70s, the newspaper guild managed to get people paid what they were worth, but the reporters suddenly became middle class. It's much more respectable, more uptight, and everyone speaks in guarded tones. And the writing isn't as good. We always had guys who were failed poets and failed novelists who did it to eat.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

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