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As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Akon

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GreatQualityPeopleGivingYouUp

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Jimmy Buffett

BaseballAmericaOldEuropeBigGot

Some very silly songs can have an almost melancholy feeling when you put it in a different perspective.

Jens Lekman

PerspectiveSillyYouFeelingAlmost

I have no interest in doing anything other than good work.

Andrea Riseborough

WorkGoodGood WorkDoingAnything

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

Andrew Davies

MoreHumourOutTakingAnyDickens

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

Matthew Lesko

GovernmentAppreciationBadWorkers

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.

Jeffrey Donovan

BetterSayWantNeverBiggerGoing

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Ann Brashares

ExpectationsBigEasierThanMuch

I don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm really busy up there, and I'm really busy with everything I have to do for every show. Add having to worry about my voice and singing lead on a song or two, that's not something I necessarily want to do.

Tom Scholz

LiveSingingSongVoiceBusyWorry

I'm an academic. I argue; I engage with people.

Mary Beard

PeopleEngageAcademicArgue

I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.

William Joyce

KingPeopleWorldYouKnowLand

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.

Swami Vivekananda

StrengthFatherYouHeavenNoble

My failure to lay aside the sin that so easily entangles is the direct result of my refusal to die to my natural proclivity toward attaining my own freedom, meaning, value, worth, and righteousness - not believing that, by virtue of my Spirit - wrought union with Christ, everything I need, I already possess.

Tullian Tchividjian

FailureFreedomValueDieResult

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