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A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don't want the brunt that comes along with that.

Kelela

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MusicCultureMenBlackWhiteWant

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Robert Henri

StrengthGoodBridgeLineAwayLike

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

Jean Kerr

BestTalentPeopleBadSituationGo

The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing. It has about a meter wing span, and it flaps in three metric tons of mineral oil. And it is a so-called dynamically scaled fly.

Michael Dickinson

FlySmallThreeOilLaboratoryMost

It's funny, 'cause it seems like just yesterday that I was the youngest player just starting out. But now there are young players all over the league, and they'll ask me questions about playing overseas or finding an agent.

Sue Wicks

FunnyMeQuestionsFindingYesterday

I had to learn to call book jackets 'jackets' rather than 'covers.'

Sonny Mehta

BookLearnCallJacketsRatherThan

I remember when Tony Blair came into office, and there was a sense I was thinking, 'Well, what on Earth am I going to do now?' until I realized that's exactly what he was thinking.

Rory Bremner

ThinkingRememberEarthNowOffice

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

Russell M. Nelson

ToleranceGroupMinoritySomewhere

America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.

Mike Gallagher

SuccessUnderdogAmericaVictories

I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.

Dick Cheney

PeopleColleaguesReputationThink

If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.

Christian Louboutin

TeaSmallOrangeDrinkTwoGoing

The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

Christopher Buckley

NationDeadlineNeedsNecessarily

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

Chris Rock

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