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They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not… — Harry West Copy Share Image
The tapes we were making would jump around with different styles, just quick parts of different songs. Hip-hop to jazz to funk… — Ad-Rock Copy Share Image
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I love it when people take contemporary songs and find a narrative or a theatrical way of telling it. — Norbert Leo Butz Copy Share Image
Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses… — Tom Sturridge Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can say by any stretch of the imagination that all Wisconsin or Brooklyn-based poets write in a… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The casting of any film is around 60% of the film, but it's also about the right casting insight. It's a bit… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt."… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
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Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie! — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
I've fallen out very badly with some of the subjects I've interviewed, because they see their lives a certain way; to step… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'... Turn the other way and… — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes. — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
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Unlike some of the time-travel movies I love, like 'Primer' or '12 Monkeys,' 'Looper' is not about time travel. It's about this… — Rian Johnson Copy Share Image
Being a pastor, of course, obviously people would say it (shouldn't) have done much but, boy, it sure gave me a peace… — Todd Burpo Copy Share Image
The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
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Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
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It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way I am achieving my dreams. — Candace Parker Copy Share Image
No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there's a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
A cancer is not simply a lung cancer. It doesn't simply have a certain kind of appearance under the microscope or a… — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image