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I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

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• Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Dog
  • Human
  • Acting

• The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Kids
  • You
  • Down

• I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Loved

• I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Time
  • Better

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • You
  • Thought

• There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Chance
  • Smart

• I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Up
  • Chicago
  • Three

• The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Feeling
  • Reason
  • Win

• I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Creation

• I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Me
  • Books
  • Finish

• It's unbelievable. But I've never been to a pro football game. I've never been to a pro hockey game, either. I guess I'm not much of a sports fan.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Football
  • Sports

• Men in the mass never brook the destructive discussion of their fundamental beliefs, and that impatience is naturally most evident in those societies in which men in the mass are most influential. Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Free
  • Democracy

• Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Strong
  • Funny
  • Athlete

• Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Political
  • Earth

• Another irritating thing about Naqsans was their habit of solemnly repeating the obvious. In that respect they were almost as bad as humans.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Habit

• Yeah, come on and let the good times roll. We're gonna stay here till we soothe our souls. If it take all night long.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Stay
  • Good Times
  • Come On

• People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

  

  Kate Nash
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Feels

• I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

  

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