I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
Yael Naim
Recitation: by Male by Female
I was an aid worker for a decade and then worked in the voluntary sector in the U.K. on U.K. child poverty and with the NSPCC and Save the Children. But I had worked for ten years with Oxfam.
Jo Cox
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I write and walk and swim and drink.
John le Carre
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Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
Jean Froissart
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I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.
Amy Sherald
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You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.
Sondra Radvanovsky
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It's no surprise that optimistic athletes, managers and teams do better. What's interesting is where they do better. It's in coming back from defeat and acting in the clutch.
Martin Seligman
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I try not to put myself in horrible situations anymore.
Jason Pierre-Paul
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Foreign terrorists are using technology to radicalize Americans at a troubling pace that continues to increase.
Chuck Fleischmann
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When my friends in college had crushes, I used to think something is wrong with them. I just chill out.
Anushka Sharma
CollegeThinkChillFriendsWrong
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.
William Gilmore Simms
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I was 12 and read my first romance novel; it was a sweeping desert saga, and I got to the end of it and was like, 'I want to go back and start all over again!' That emotional response to the book and getting to the end of a story you love is what inspires me to write the next book.
Sylvia Day
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I don't like to follow in the footsteps. I like to learn from the footsteps that came before me, forge a new path.
Shari Redstone
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