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New Zealand is my favorite country to visit.

Tom Curren

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It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life.

Mavis Staples

LifeAmazingMeFriendsMagical

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Matthew Simpson

LiveMenYouFameTurnMay

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

John Shelton Reed

KnowledgeIgnoranceMeBelieveSound

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

AmbitionFriendsDesireLivingDead

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Tom Lehrer

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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Rita Dove

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I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.

Rivers Cuomo

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It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'

Mike White

ChallengeBestYourselfInteresting

'Downton Abbey' has become this huge thing, and I really enjoy the success of it, but I sometimes find myself on the outside looking in, which is sort of a healthy way to look at it so you don't get too caught up in it.

Michelle Dockery

SuccessMyselfLookingEnjoyLook

I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

Jason Ralph

ValueThinkCharityViewProblem

Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.

Drew Barrymore

WorkGoodArtMeCameraLooks

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

Condoleezza Rice

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