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		I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yo-Yo Ma 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I'm not Cinderella. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Valerie Trierweiler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edith Piaf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Shepard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lance Bass 
			 
			
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		I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Candace Parker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zelda Fitzgerald 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Marx 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victor Hugo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen O 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Said Sayrafiezadeh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zac Brown Band 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nastia Liukin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		We're all idealistic when young. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pat Oliphant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Marlantes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karan Johar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Philipp Moritz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oliver Evans 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Malcolm de Chazal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alexander Wang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A few years back, when my style was 'punk grandma,' I picked up an amazing pair of sandals - orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I've given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more '1980s substitute teacher gone wild.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mary Beth Patterson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pankaj Mishra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yukio Mishima 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yo-Yo Ma