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• When I write a song and come up with an arrangement and a vocal part, it's always a challenge trying to find a singer who can interpret it sort of the way that I hear it, and it's a very difficult thing to do. I mean, singing is like playing an instrument - everybody does it a little bit different - singing maybe even more so.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Song

• I sang in the choir growing up and more recently served on the worship team at my church in California.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans
  • Growing
  • Team
  • Church

• I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

  

  Angela Cartwright
  • Time
  • Live
  • Mind

• 'But your sign says you can conjure up ever-filled purses,' Holger began.'Advertising,' Martinus admitted. 'Corroborative detail intended to lend artistic verisimilitude.'

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Up

• I just thank God my husband and I found each other before the advent of social media. I can't imagine dating someone and seeing what they're doing on their Facebook page. And people breaking up with each other over texts now? We had to break up with each other face to face back then.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • People
  • God
  • Husband

• You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Endurance
  • Crowds
  • Inequality

• The challenge is shifting our appreciation: being willing to give up some of dad’s money for more of dad’s love. And, in the process, altering the psyche that makes him lovable.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Challenge

• Over the past five years, I have often recalled that the United Nations' Charter begins with the words: 'We the peoples.' What is not always recognized is that 'we the peoples' are made up of individuals whose claims to the most fundamental rights have too often been sacrificed in the supposed interests of the state or the nation.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Up
  • Past
  • Words

• And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • Present

• My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.

  

  John Mackey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Dad

• They have a tendency to get beaten up or thrown off a cliff, I know. Why does that happen with me?

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Why

• Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others is just false. But black folks fight the hardest for our communities. Before governments do, before other people do, we're the first ones to show up. We are the first ones to fight for our lives.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Black
  • Community

• It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

  

  Jehane Noujaim
  • People
  • World
  • Creativity

• There have been a lot of roles and scripts that have come my way but nothing that really inspired me or intrigued me like when "Burlesque" showed up at my door. Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque. I've been intrigued by the time that it's set in, in the 20's, 30's, 40's and so I knew it was a no brainer for me to be a part of once I met with the team.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Time
  • Book
  • Team

• As kids, we grow up thinking our parents are perfect and flawless - well, some of us - but they're trying to do the best they can.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Kids

• I grew up watching "That's So Raven" and "Lizzie McGuire," and I said to myself that I could do that one day, and here I am. This is a dream come true and I am just ecstatic to be here living out my childhood dreams.

  

  Zendaya
  • True
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Work
  • Wonder
  • Gratitude

• You ever taste some damn chicken so horrible, that you wished the chicken would show up at your house and show your lady how to cook him?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • House
  • Taste
  • Chickens

• Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Day

• The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Water

• The songs, if I write alone in a room, end up being a little more quiet, a little more subdued. If I play with other musicians or percussive instruments, it might end up being a little more upbeat.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • Up
  • Alone

• When I think about how I grew up sleeping on a cot in the hallway in a one-bedroom apartment in Flatbush, it's been a great life. I can't complain.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• How it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet!How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's feet!How it rattles on the shutter! How it rumples up the lawn!How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, From darkness until dawn.

  

  Rain
  • Up

• I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Age
  • Christian
  • Atheist

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