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Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
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  • Never

• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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  • Boring

• Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.

  

  Ted Rall
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  • Day

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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  • Straight

• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

  Zaha Hadid
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  • WIld

• God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • God
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  • Batting

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
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  • Planes

• I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.

  

  K. A. Applegate
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  • Short

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
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  • McDonald

• Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
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  • Chinese
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• I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.

  

  Washed Out
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• I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.

  

  Pat Summerall
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• I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

  

  Ma Rainey
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• I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.

  

  Becky G
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• You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.

  

  Caleb Johnson
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• I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
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• Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

  

  Jackson Browne
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  • For Her

• Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

  

  Abraham Cahan
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  • Humble

• In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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• The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
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• I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

  

  Amanda Harlech
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• I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

  

  Delmore Schwartz
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• Canada is a really big melting pot of cultures, so we ended up with a giant mosaic of different music.

  

  Alessia Cara
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