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Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

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• No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • May
  • Today
  • Leader

• I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • World
  • Want
  • Player

• I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Good
  • Love
  • Bad

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• Music is such a part of my soul.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Music
  • Soul
  • My Soul

• You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • People
  • Good
  • Book

• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Opinion
  • Arguments

• My literary success meant nothing to me.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Success
  • Me
  • Nothing

• I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Want
  • You
  • Chickens

• I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

  

  Vanna White
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Homework

• I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Loss

• It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Asking

• What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing

• Whenever you interview people who are truly successful at their chosen profession-from teaching to telemarketing, acting to accounting-you discover that the secret to their success lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

  

  Marcus Buckingham
  • People
  • Life
  • Success

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.

  

  Mark Romanek
  • School
  • Experience

• Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Music
  • Live
  • Art

• Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Experience
  • Causes
  • Envy

• I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Veins

• Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

  

  Cat Power
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