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I was a rapper. Like every black kid I was attracted to rapping. I wanted to be like L.L. Cool J and… — Al B. Sure Copy Share Image
I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
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The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it.… — Dorothy Atkinson Copy Share Image
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The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
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