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I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

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• I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Character
  • Age

• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Myself
  • Trust
  • Weird

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • You
  • Conservative

• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Like
  • Trouble

• We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Energy
  • Wind
  • Solar

• I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Secret

• I just respect Kanye as an artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Respect
  • Artist
  • Just

• With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Earth
  • Research

• It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • Up
  • Time
  • Best

• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Good Company

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Comfort Zone

• I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Myself

• I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Best
  • Give
  • Unable

• The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Know
  • Question

• I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

  

  Gallagher
  • Responsibility
  • Audience

• I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Time
  • Character
  • Perception

• Whether I want to be at practice or not, I show up every day. Whether I'm healthy or I'm sick or hurt or tired, I show up every day.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Practice
  • Hurt
  • Tired

• Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Vision

• One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Interesting

• People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

  

  Mitchel Musso
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Guitar

• I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

  

  M.I.A.
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  • Hate