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I like going after good material, well-written material.
Sam Underwood
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
Fat Joe
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
Oren Peli
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
Oxana Chusovitina
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I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.
FKA twigs
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
Warren Bennis
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Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
Iris Apfel
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
Ted Turner
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
Eddie Redmayne
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
Nathan Lane
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
Caitlin Rose
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I'm competitive. I don't like to lose.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
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What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
Viggo Mortensen
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
Iain Banks
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
Rachel Kushner
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.
Walt Disney
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Haim Ginott
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
Kapil Sibal
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What America has in Hillary Clinton is a potential president with the charisma but not the competence of Angela Merkel, and the ethics of Dilma Rousseff.
Pat Buchanan
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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