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		I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd be kind of a novelty act, but punk was all about non-discrimination. No one cared because it was punk, so, you know, anyone could do anything they wanted.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Chrissie Hynde 
			 
			
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		If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Olivia Wilde 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hans Frank 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Larry Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Magic Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Hailey Bieber 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Kevorkian 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pamela Hansford Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kate Winslet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Walter Becker 
			 
			
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		If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zooey Deschanel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vanessa Carlton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ben Barnes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jason Bateman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie, and that's where I met Coltrane. Coltrane and Jimmy Heath just joined the band, and I brought my trumpet, and he was sitting at the piano downstairs waiting to join Dizzy's band. He had his saxophone across his lap, and he looked at me and he said, 'You want to play?' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Donald Byrd 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Frederica Mathewes-Green 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am very grateful to punk because I was a girl, and I felt like if I got in a band, I'd be kind of a novelty act, but punk was all about non-discrimination. No one cared because it was punk, so, you know, anyone could do anything they wanted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Chrissie Hynde 
			 
			
				Pretenders