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I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

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• From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Like
  • First

• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Me

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Me
  • Diversity
  • Helpful

• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Smile
  • Hands
  • Profound

• I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

  

  Halima Aden
  • School
  • Like
  • Speak

• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Trust

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

  

  Larry David
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Person

• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Islam

• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Lyrics

• The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Always
  • Serious
  • Data

• I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Small
  • Church
  • Learn

• The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Taken
  • Serious

• I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Song
  • Me
  • Singer

• We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • People
  • Country
  • Movie

• I always wanted to have many friends, unfortunately, friends are formed with years, and not everybody know how to respond as a friend.3

  

  Luis Miguel
  • Friends
  • Friend

• We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • World
  • America
  • War

• I'm older than I'd like and I'm creaky, but I'm doing alright.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds

• I visit studios. Just to get the feel, the smell, and see what other people are doing. Not only listening to the radio, but going to studios, greeting musicians and artists, just getting a vibe.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • People
  • Listening

• I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with.

  

  Sting The Police
  • People
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