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- I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit…
- I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named…
- I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an…
- People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
- But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in…
- I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that…
- I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I…
- I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in…
- My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room. So if you leave your clothes on the floor, we put them in a…
- A lot of people are just really confused by me; they don’t know what to think of me, so they try to compartmentalize me or…
- I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot…
- My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of…
- I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself,…
- New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at…
- If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!
- Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.
- On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for.
- Nothing cheers a girl up like SHOPPING!
- We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values -- looking good, having cash in the bank, being…
- I like coming up with these spectacular extravaganzas that will, hopefully, totally blow people away. But I also like the intimacy of stopping it all…
- I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.
- After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious and starts to…
- Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.
- In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's…
- We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong