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		As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yo-Yo Ma 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irene Rosenfeld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Waylon Jennings 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kamisese Mara 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Joyce 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eckhart Tolle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel L. Jackson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abby Wambach 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mandy Patinkin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vanessa Paradis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. D. Souther 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Harris 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry White 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Hicks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irina Shayk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Kerrigan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maceo Parker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rebel Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Peter Stone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think, before 'Watchmen,' I was the guy from 'Grey's Anatomy' who's a pretty good guy, a pretty charming sweet guy, and so as an actor, I really wanted to do something as far from that as I could. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jeffrey Dean Morgan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not really obsessed with death. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Robert Smith 
			 
			
				The Cure  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I'm cooking dinner for my hubby or designing a line or selling on QVC, I try to do it in an authentic way. To speak to people like I want to be spoken to, to be a voice for people who don't have one and to give them things they need and love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Khloe Kardashian 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yo-Yo Ma