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When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

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MusicNowKindFirstStartedGot

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

John C. Maxwell

PrideFallMeetWillMatterFail

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

John Paul Jones

SailShipWishConnectionFastGo

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.

Steve Buyer

GratitudeWarAmericaYoungVeterans

I know how men think when they're not responding to questions in a clinical study.

Steve Harvey

MenThinkQuestionsKnowStudyHow

If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.

Steve Wynn

BusinessDisciplinePeopleReality

The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks in the world should control a little bit the banks' financing because they cannot bypass a certain range of leverage.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

ControlWorldFinancialEndTax

My kids are always like, 'Why do people always want to take pictures with you?' and I'm like, 'Because I'm your Dada, and you're my daughter. That's why.' It's definitely mostly because of 'Game of Thrones.'

Jason Momoa

DaughterPeopleGameYouPictures

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

Brene Brown

FamilyTrainingPeopleCarePool

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

Bradley Whitford

ComedyWantSketchSeeFanBob

Pele was the most complete player I've ever seen.

Bobby Moore

SeenCompletePlayerMostEverPele

I think we are faced in medicine with the reality that we have to be willing to talk about our failures and think hard about them, even despite the malpractice system. I mean, there are things that we can do to make that system better.

Atul Gawande

MedicineThinkRealityBetterTalk

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

Allen Tate

LifeFailureInterestingPerfectUp

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