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When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.

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• Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

  

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• Power is the by-product of understanding.

  

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• Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.

  

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• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

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• This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

  

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• For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.

  

  Jack McBrayer
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• You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

  

  Olly Murs
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• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

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• The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.

  

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• I am from Karnal, India.

  

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• Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.

  

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• You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

  

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• Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.

  

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• Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.

  

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• I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

  

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• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  

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• The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

  

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• In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

  

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• It's just amazing to do something that's part of a pop culture phenomenon.

  

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• And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go?

  

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• You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

  

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• Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

  

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• When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.

  

  Alessia Cara
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