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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
  • Kind
  • 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
  • Know
  • First
  • 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
  • Up
  • Job
  • Day

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

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

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

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Loved
  • London
  • WIld

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

  

  Dale Murphy
  • God
  • Interested
  • 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
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • 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
  • Music
  • End
  • 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
  • You
  • Tennis
  • 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
  • Asset

• 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
  • Sound
  • Everything
  • Delay

• 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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  • You
  • Nothing

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

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Way
  • Change
  • Afraid

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

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Know
  • White
  • Blues

• 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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  • Gold
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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
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

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

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Love
  • Control
  • For Her

• When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.

  

  Arthur Smith
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  • Up
  • World

• Once upon a time, he'd believed that his music, his guitar, and his songs were everything he needed. But tonight, as his tour bus roared down yet another highway to yet another stadium, Ford finally realized that his songs and audiences could never even come close to filling the hole inside of him. Only one thing - only one person - had ever been able to do that. Only Mia.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Audiences

• Pornography incarnates male supremacy. It is the DNA of male dominance. Every rule of sexual abuse, every nuance of sexual sadism, every highway and byway of sexual exploitation, is encoded in it.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Abuse

• I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Time
  • May
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• All I want is to have my peace of mind...

  

  Brad Delp Boston
  • Mind
  • Peace

• 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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