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I don't necessarily feel 100 per cent comfortable standing up on stage in front of lots of people, but I don't think most people would. It's a pretty bizarre thing to do. It can also be absolutely incredible having thousands of people singing back lyrics that you might have written in your bedroom or wherever.

Dan Smith

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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

Jeremy Renner

ThoughtsStoryThinkSomeoneCinema

There's a number of places I've wanted to go but it's been determined too risky or that I'm relatively well-known, and therefore it might not be wise for me to pop up in this place.

Anderson Cooper

WiseMePlaceGoPlacesDetermined

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem.

Robert Smithson

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My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

Robert Mapplethorpe

FatherBrotherMeLikeWantsDad

When I write a tune - and it's been like this for many years - I always hear in the back of my head some sort of vague, orchestrated, fully fleshed-out big-band version of the song with other parts going on.

John Scofield

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Anyone who's an executive at a record label does not understand what the Internet is, how it works, how people use it, how fans and consumers interact - no idea. I'm surprised they know how to use e-mail.

Trent Reznor

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The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Michel de Montaigne

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Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.

Luke Harding

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I was very poor when I was young.

Jason Day

YoungPoorVery

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

Don Cornelius

GreatRacismChicagoNeverUpDeal

Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.

Derek Fisher

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