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		Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Valerie Jarrett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalie Cole 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbra Streisand 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vanessa Diffenbaugh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A dead end street is a good place to turn around. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naomi Judd 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Napoleon Hill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Secunda 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tali Lennox 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damien Chazelle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yoko Ono 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ranbir Kapoor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahesh Babu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If it hadn't worked out professionally, I would be teaching music theory and composition in a small college somewhere and playing drums in a jazz trio at the Holiday Inn on weekends, and I'd be happy there, too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. D. Souther 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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				Boney M.  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jamaica Kincaid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the first memories I have, we went to - actually, we stopped in New York for a little bit, and I remember going to Macy's with my mom. And I was a big fan of the color orange, and they had Snoopy orange gloves, hat and scarves. And I bought it, and it was the best thing ever. I loved America right there. That was it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maz Jobrani 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sheherazade Goldsmith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Kerrang!: Clare Sharp from Glasgow would like to know what you thought of your mum's appearance in Kerrang! last August 1996 - predicting the future for ten rock stars? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chris Cornell 
			 
			
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		Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Valerie Jarrett