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When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
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In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
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As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?
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It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.
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Honesty is the most single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product.
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It meant a lot because it was my first time to compete as a senior at that meet, which was kind of weird because I've done senior all year, but I didn't get to compete last year because of my elbow.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
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Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon
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Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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I used to hate flying. I would sit there, rigid, convinced that if I relaxed, the plane would drop out of the sky.
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It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.
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When it comes to musicians, I'm like the daddy of musicians here in Cuba.
