When we started the Allman Brothers, it was all about the music.
Butch Trucks
Recitation: by Male by Female
I never really thought about being a role model. I started really young, so at 10 years old, I was still very much the person who needed role models. I wasn't really prepared to be one, but it's always something that I've taken very seriously.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
ThoughtRole ModelPersonYoungOld
My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
Rita Coolidge
GrandmotherSheSongsWroteUntil
I tell people, 'I'm American. I act.'
Roma Maffia
PeopleAmericanTellAct
Women in the service put themselves in harms way to protect us and our Nation from threats at home and abroad. The least we can do is ensure they are protected when facing a horrible tragedy.
Louise Slaughter
HomeWomenServiceTragedyWayUs
When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings.
Jon Katz
TechnologyWritingBookLonelyMedia
I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
Don Henley
MeThinkPlayKnowFirstPretty
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
Dinaw Mengestu
LifeMeWorldLanguageUnderstanding
Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win... not many.
Christopher Judge
BestWinEnoughYouWayBig
Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
Brian May
ChildrenHurtPoorWeakAlways
I learned everything I know about music from my parents and my sisters.
Brian Tyree Henry
MusicParentsKnowEverythingAbout
Yes, I am very unhappy, extremely anguished at human rights violations against Kashmiris in India or against Rohingyas in Burma or, for that matter, Christians in Orissa; but obviously, I am going to be more concerned of violations taking place in my own house because I am closer to the people who I live with. I have more passion for them.
Asma Jahangir
LivePassionI AmPeopleUnhappy
In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under the debris of the 'Red Empire' slowly and tentatively.
Svetlana Alexievich
FreedomRedFindingWayStripesOut
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