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I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

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• Education is so important.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Important
  • Education

• If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Dog
  • Equality

• Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • May
  • Business

• The thing I have in common with Donald Trump is, about a dozen years ago, we got a 'Man of the Year' award in New York City, the Hotel Plaza, from the USO.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Man
  • City
  • Trump

• He's got tons of experience, and he's a very good holder. We felt like it was somebody we need to look at.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Game

• You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Comeback
  • Burn
  • Healed

• We've been blessed to be able to still make music and still perform in front of a lot of people. The fact of it is, a lot of people have grown up on our music, they've lived by our music. Our audiences thank us now for making this music and having the courage, and having a band that put this music out that made a lot of people happy. Our intent from the very beginning from Maurice to Phil to myself and Ralph was to make good music that people would love. We're proud of that.

  

  Verdine White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • Blessed
  • Music
  • People

• When I'm not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Working
  • Radar
  • Promoting

• I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

  

  Cedric Gervais
  • Work
  • Transcend
  • Ballads

• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Me
  • Like
  • General

• I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Singing

• I came into the music world in 1988 with a song called Ooh La La, that was like a breath of fresh air in Haitian music.

  

  Michel Martelly
  • Song
  • Breaths
  • Fresh

• I'm not good at remembering things, in general.

  

  John Prine
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