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My music is inspired by my life: the people in my life, the people I have relationships with, the people I love, the people that make me feel something.

Banks

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Jesus taught that we should give to the poor and support widows, but he never said that we should elect a government that would take money from our neighbor's hand and give it to the poor.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

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One thing I incorporated in my novel 'The Poe Shadow' was the little-known fact that documents show Poe inherited a slave and decided to free him.

Matthew Pearl

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The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat.

Amiri Baraka

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I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

Robert Ballard

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I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Rosemary Clooney

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No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.

Mikhail Prokhorov

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There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.

Josie Maran

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What I have said to my team is that at a point such as this, with 40% adjustment in our currency, it means that Malawians are paying the price. While that is going on, they need to see, us, the commitment on our part, particularly right at the top. The political will needs to go through this with the people, side by side.

Joyce Banda

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Singers like Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar are very conscious of what's going on around them, and they're waking up lot of young people with that knowledge. They bring their enlightenment to the world; the world that is buying their records.

Dianne Reeves

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Acting meant so much to me.

Brendan Coyle

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Guys, your home should never smell like artificial food: candy canes, gum drops, lemon bars. I mean, I will consume lemon bars in mass quantities, but I don't want my house to smell like one.

Brooklyn Decker

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It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation.

Anthony Holden

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