I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.
Billy Joel
Recitation: by Male by Female
I won't talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it. It's a waste of my time. If they don't feel 'called' - why in God's name would you do this?
Jim Harrison
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There's some evidence that if you're recruiting, you tend to recruit a mini-me. Then you have a very comfortable group round a table. You all think alike. You agree. People are arguing that the banking crisis was because too many of the relevant bodies were thinkalikes, and that if they'd had more diversity, maybe it wouldn't have happened.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
Jesse Jackson
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I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.
John Grant
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It's because of women like my grandmother Roberta - women who have lived their lives fearlessly, on their own terms - that I am who I am. I'm grateful to have such an inspiring woman as a grandmother.
Meghan McCain
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
Max Weber
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People get really caught up in their own trips.
Max Cannon
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And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.
Jean M. Auel
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I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.
Tre Cool
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But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.
Robert Fripp
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For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert Benchley
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When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis.
Robin Trower
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