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What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

Chuck D

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I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Jilly Cooper

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Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

Andrew Cohen

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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Andrew Jackson

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No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

John Wooden

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Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

Alysia Reiner

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It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

Steven Spielberg

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Actually, I started off playing by ear and being around a bunch of musicians playing in the streets in the different parades.

Trombone Shorty

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The music industry really is a meritocracy on a creative level.

Troy Carter

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The first time I had sushi, I hated it. And the second time was no different, and then, I just started loving it. I actually crave for sushi. It's one of the healthiest meals. My experiments with food began when I was working in New York as an architect, be it Korean or Ethiopian food or fusion food.

Riteish Deshmukh

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I would rather do many small roles on TV, stage or film than one blockbuster that made me rich but had no acting.

Miranda Richardson

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Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.

Mo Ibrahim

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My tour manager, I met him at Boot Barn. He was selling me a pair of boots... and he said, 'I moved to Nashville to be a tour manager, and I need work right now,' and I said, 'Man, I don't even have a tour manager. So you can tour-manage me.'

Luke Combs

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