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Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

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• The world is too violent right now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Right
  • Now

• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • True
  • Father

• I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • Thought

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • You
  • Lady

• My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Real
  • She
  • Comedy

• I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Singing

• Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Money
  • Why
  • True

• I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Want
  • Coach
  • Who

• Melody is king, and don't you ever forget it. Lyrics appear to be out front, but they're not; they're just an accompanying factor. If they're good, you're really in good shape. Lyrics are written to be rewritten.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • King
  • Forget

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Art

• I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Life
  • Music
  • Working

• I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Effort

• This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Life
  • Humanity

• Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Film
  • Certain
  • Poor

• I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.

  

  Yannis Philippakis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Want

• Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.

  

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  • Music
  • Europe
  • Flowers