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I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

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• I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • New

• People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Day
  • Media

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Age
  • Kind

• I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Life
  • Job
  • Hope

• My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Me
  • Childhood
  • Challenges

• This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Money
  • Done
  • Changes

• 'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Home

• If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Me

• I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Silence
  • Once
  • While

• I like a little bit of a rough look because it's sexy. But when a man has a rough look, and he goes and gets a cleanup, then it's very sexy as well.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Man
  • Look
  • Sexy

• I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Support
  • Woman
  • Smart

• Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Prayer
  • Thanks
  • Solitude

• My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Father
  • Think
  • Interest

• Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Man
  • Only
  • Heroism

• Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Boxing
  • Performance
  • Your

• If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • American
  • Crazy
  • Acceptance

• My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Born

• But however mysterious is nature, however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science, the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Success

• Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what she describes as an 'unblinking look' at their subjects - which might, of course, mean that her eyes are permanently open or permanently closed... the result is a work so bad that Britons cannot realise how fortunate they are in being unable to buy it. The great mistake with this book is not that it has been published in Britain, but that it has actually been published anywhere else.

  

  David Cannadine
  • Writing
  • Mistake
  • Language

• Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Internet
  • September 11

• I found a great woman in Keely Shaye. Not if I searched a million times over would I find one as good.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Good
  • Great

• I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa