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		The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M. Ward 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hal Sparks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Halldor Laxness 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yoko Ono 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Gibbs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nazanin Boniadi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		No one should be left to suffer alone. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daisaku Ikeda 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalie Massenet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I often have said to people that there are really two cities in the country where the outlook is always forward-looking - there is never really a backward-looking tendency. My banking work has taken me out to Palo Alto, what is commonly called Silicon Valley. And you sense out there is always a forward-looking outlook. And New York City. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Harold Ford, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				La'Porsha Renae 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Isaac Asimov 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Botham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		People need revelation, and then they need resolution. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damian Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Drew Houston 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Numan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sometimes I'll be sitting with my friends; I'll say something Koothrappali-esque and make a face. There is a lot of Koothrappali in me as a human being. A lot of mannerism, humor, mischievousness, my innocence. So I don't know if I bring him home so much as I bring myself to him at work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kunal Nayyar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The only urgency I feel is to keep on, at a slow pace, with my journey. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alessandro Michele 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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