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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
  • Think
  • Father
  • 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

• I'm sometimes asked if I get bored with talking about 'Kevin,' and of course, the short answer is yes. Nevertheless, after a long slog in the literary trenches, I never take a single reader for granted and always remind myself that for new readers the unfolding story is fresh.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Long
  • Single
  • Bored

• Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south.

  

  Aleksandr Vasilevsky
  • Enemy
  • Defeat
  • Contribution

• It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • People
  • Know
  • Cool

• In my 20s, it was very hard to go, 'I'm heavier than that girl.' Getting older makes a huge difference.

  

  Constance Zimmer
  • Girl

• Not that a poem can "hurt" someone the same way a physical blow can or even a mean remark can...I just felt unsure that my tone would be taken the right way and/or unsure of my own writing, that I couldn't maintain the tone I wanted.

  

  Denise Duhamel
  • Way
  • Hurt
  • Poem

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

  

  Afrika Bambaataa