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So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

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• The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Most

• Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Poetry
  • Jazz
  • Slave

• I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Music
  • Career
  • Want

• I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Time
  • Christian
  • Graduation

• I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Sea
  • Resort
  • Skyscrapers

• I have never wanted a family. I don't believe in marriage, though I obviously believe it should be legal for everyone who wants to do it. But it is not something I believe in, nor do the characters in my book, nor do any of my friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Book

• There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Man
  • Process
  • Meaning

• A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Enough
  • Drug
  • Alcohol

• When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.

  

  Ashley Tisdale
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Friend

• Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Style
  • Propaganda
  • Adolescence

• If you were handed power on a plate you'd be left fighting over a plate.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Power
  • Fighting
  • Plates

• The first two-dimensional images were thus not two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional things in the material world, as researchers have always assumed. Rather, they were ‘fixed’ mental images.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • World
  • Things
  • Images

• To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Freedom
  • Enjoy
  • Motivational

• The reputation of those countries which cater to the foreign policy interests of other states at the expense of their own national interests will go down regardless of how they explain their actions.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Action
  • Reputation

• You have to watch what you eat.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Watch
  • Eat

• My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so.

  

  George Washington
  • Earth
  • Independent
  • Honor

• What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.

  

  Spencer Wells
  • Together
  • Enough
  • Share

• Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a man, the peculiarities of whose mind qualified him to detect failure of proof, and want of logical consistency, at a depth which French skeptics, with their comparatively feeble powers of analysis and abstractions stop far short of, and which German subtlety alone could thoroughly appreciate, or hope to rival.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Failure
  • Thinkers
  • Skeptics

• So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
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