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• I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Parents
  • Stop
  • Beginning

• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Best
  • End

• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Goal

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Write

• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Drug
  • Addiction
  • Video Games

• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Enjoy

• One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Nature
  • Today
  • Garden

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Important
  • Strong

• I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Never
  • Theory
  • Communist

• I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Great
  • Country
  • Stand

• It takes one person to give you a big chance.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • You
  • Chance
  • Big

• The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Free
  • System
  • Capitalism

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Country
  • Together
  • President

• I've always been interested in working with top athletes, athletes who are pushing the edge and are really progressive in the outdoor space and adventure world.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • World
  • Space
  • Adventure

• The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • History
  • Proud

• I've knocked people out from the clinch. I've submitted people from armbars, Kimura, last-second armbars. I've knocked people out with one-hand punch.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People
  • Hand

• I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Friend
  • Mom

• There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.

  

  Florence King
  • Food
  • Sex

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
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