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I put out this record on Ninja Tune called 'Florida' when I was about 22. And at the same time, I was DJ'ing and beginning to mix stuff up and promote shows in Philadelphia and New York and my own parties and make mixtapes, put out bootleg white labels.

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Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

Andrew O'Hagan

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It's strange because even in the vaudeville days, ventriloquists were never the main attraction. They were the guys brought out to stand in front of the curtain while sets were being changed. Ventriloquism wasn't even celebrated as an art until Edgar Bergen came along in the 1930s.

Jeff Dunham

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Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

Jeff Koons

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It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Stanley Milgram

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I love rap, and I love the angst of hardcore music and punk rock.

Sonny Sandoval

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My decision to leave applied mathematics for economics was in part tied to the widely-held popular belief in the 1960s that macroeconomics had made fundamental inroads into controlling business cycles and stopping dysfunctional unemployment and inflation.

Robert C. Merton

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The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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I love heels. I'm 5-foot-2, and I like feeling tall.

Misty Copeland

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I want women to see, especially us big women, that you don't have to let them cut you and suck it out. You don't have to let them staple you up. You don't have to let them give you a pill. You don't have to let them put a band around your organs. If you just put the work in, baby, I promise you, it comes off.

Mo'Nique

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I don't research anything.

Derek Bailey

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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

Phillips Brooks

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For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

Pierre de Coubertin

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