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Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

  

  Bas Rutten
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• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

  Edmund White
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• I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

  

  Laura Linney
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• After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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• There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.

  

  Hailey Bieber
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• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
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• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
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• When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

  

  Vince Cable
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• When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.

  

  Wayne Newton
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• By and large my relations with the US were good.

  

  Hans Blix
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• I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

  

  B. D. Wong
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• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
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• There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

  

  Lea Michele

• If nothing else, we are committed to failing in a new way.

  

  Elon Musk

• I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.

  

  Haley Reinhart
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• I've always had a middling kind of a career, not great highs and great lows.

  

  Blythe Danner
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• Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.

  

  Alex Clare
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