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I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

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• The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!

  

  Mac DeMarco
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• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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• I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Be with someone who is kind. I think that's it. Just to love one another was the thing I would want to do. It's a thing that you can't stop doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

  

  Oscar Nunez
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• The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.

  

  Harland Williams
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• I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.

  

  Idris Elba
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• Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.

  

  Tamar Braxton
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• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
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• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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• Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.

  

  Salman Khan
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• Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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• The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
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• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Being an adult, you've already suffered enough from your own mistakes, and the world, to come to this as a humble human being. So it's not like, "I'm going to do the right thing because it advances me," as much as it's like, "I'm going to do the right thing because this puts me closest to the dream I had as a 10-year-old kid."

  

  Killer Mike
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• Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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• I have heard Shree Rajneesh and have been inspired by his talks. His works are sublimne and seek to liberate the soul of humans. Indeed his presentation is unique, his goal is great and his success in liberating each person from the mafia surrounding the soul is rewarding reading. The message that he had to deliver must reach everywhere. Ultimately salvation comes when one attains freedom from oneself. That, I believe, is the consummation which exposure to Osho may help.

  

  V. R. Krishna Iyer
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• I was a total dork in high school.

  

  Rainn Wilson
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• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
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