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Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • City
  • Born
  • New

• Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Want
  • Living
  • Old

• My responsibility is to follow the law.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Law
  • Responsibility
  • Follow

• Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Nature
  • Objects
  • Processes

• It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Career
  • Education
  • Support

• My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Memory
  • Restaurant

• I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Game
  • Night
  • Better

• I got a big mouth.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Big
  • Got
  • Mouth

• I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Never
  • Story

• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Name
  • Increases

• You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Party
  • Trump

• I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Together

• In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Truth
  • Deep
  • Down

• I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Music
  • Free

• Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Opportunity

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Game
  • Child
  • Sound

• Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Day
  • Artist

• Songwriters always reminded me of that kid at school who would go around with his guitar, like, 'Yeah, songwritin' man,' looking wistful. That wasn't me - those kinds of people put me off. In the early days, I'd write a bunch of lyrics and almost look at them as a sort of joke, to make the rest of the boys laugh.

  

  Alex Turner
  • People
  • School
  • Rest

• Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • You
  • Choices
  • Need

• God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Great
  • God
  • Person

• The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

  

  William C. Somerville
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Years

• Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.

  

  Prince
  • Success
  • Person
  • Years