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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

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• There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

  

  Jack Black
  • Parents
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.

  

  Maimonides
  • True
  • Nature
  • Never

• I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • School
  • Bad

• This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Manipulation
  • Blockchain

• We do not interfere in U.S. politics... and Europeans expect that America does not interfere in European politics.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • America
  • Politics
  • Expect

• I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Good
  • Great
  • Ethics

• Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Real
  • Poetry
  • Friendship

• The real war will never get in the books.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • War
  • Never

• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

  

  Larry Page
  • Many
  • Rather
  • Few

• I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Change
  • Talking
  • Fake

• Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hand
  • Sound
  • Stone

• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Life
  • School
  • Desk

• When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Age
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Experience
  • Understanding
  • Better

• After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Racism

• Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Different
  • School

• My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Good
  • Real
  • She

• I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green, merry fucking Christmas!

  

  Denis Leary
  • High
  • Green
  • Christmas

• Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Body

• Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Know
  • Morning
  • Blearily

• From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of singing with emotion- authentic emotion- not contrived- which has made my music endearing.

  

  Oleta Adams
  • Music
  • Church
  • Singing

• I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Rock
  • Singing