I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built this studio in the basement and played there all hours of the day.
Jesse Andrews
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I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.
Roseanne Barr
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This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
Mitch Hedberg
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You always feel pretty good after a bye, after a couple of days off. Not having a game, you freshen up a little.
Logan Mankins
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I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.
Don Henley
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I have a memory problem. My family and friends call me Lady Ghajini.
Divyanka Tripathi
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The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.
Doc Hastings
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Let us declare that we are a nation of interdependence, and that in America love always trumps hate. Let us declare, so that generations yet unborn can hear us. We are the United States of America; our best days are ahead of us. And together, with Hillary Clinton as our President, America, we will rise.
Cory Booker
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Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.
Aunjanue Ellis
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Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
Asif Ali Zardari
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Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.
Shereen El Feki
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I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.
Tyler Hamilton
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