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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

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LifeYourselfSchoolMeNameChoose

Do something good for someone every day.

Jesse White

GoodDaySomeoneEvery DaySomething

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

Jessi Klein

MePictureGoWantAustraliaSame

I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.

Jerrod Carmichael

LoveArtResponsibilityThinkPush

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.

Joel Fuhrman

FoodDietStreetLivingFrench Fries

When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence.

Michael Hastings

WritingAudienceFactEveryMass

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

Michael Cunningham

GreatSchoolBookHigh SchoolHigh

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

John Updike

DreamsYour DreamsManYouHuman

That's the thing about awards - it's for the people who do all the hard work behind the scenes. An award is just a clap at them.

Sia

WorkHard WorkPeopleAwardAwards

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Tony Bennett

ThinkBe DifferentYouTieDifferent

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse.

Miriam Toews

LifeWritingBusySearchLongYou

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

Jordan Peterson

LiteratureConnectionBiologyHard

AI is going to be extremely beneficial, and already is, to the field of cybersecurity. It's also going to be beneficial to criminals.

Dmitri Alperovitch

AIGoingCriminalsFieldBeneficial

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