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“I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.”

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I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

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I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment…

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You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I…

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I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once you've made your mark and gotten your Rolling Stone piece and your Grammy nomination, that they're on to the next piece of meat, and they don't necessarily like to follow the twistsand turns of an artistic career. Throwing an opera at…

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I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

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I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were very successful in many ways, but they weren't necessarily top of the charts. We were never wealthy because of music. We always had to work and we always had to struggle a little bit, and I think at…

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Growing up, for years and years I had no idea what the plots of operas were, and that's part of what fascinated me -…

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Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no…

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I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as…

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And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck…

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It's about how whenever I fall in love, I have these expectations of the experience being a perfect dream, which, of course, ruins it. I imagine cradling my lover's head in my lap in a cab in the middle of the night, and drinking champagne in an elegant hotel suite. But life's rarely like that, and I usually end up…

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Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I…

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Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside.

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Maybe I’m just tired. (Geary) People only say that when they’re not really willing to deal with the issue at hand. It’s like when you ask a guy what he’s thinking and he says ‘nothing’ but in reality you know he’s checking out another woman and he doesn’t want you to give him grief over it. It’s Thia’s theory. (Tory)…

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I'm at that age where I notice friends checking out my face and wondering, Has she been Botoxed? There's a new map there people…

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When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.

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Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains…

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With all tools at my disposal, I'm 100% into chasing tone and checking out new equipment and "geeking" out during sound check by taking…

John Petrucci

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I don't feel like I'm standing in a position where I have some right above other people to say what I think. We should…

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Here's what we [Americans] need: a 30 second you tube video of some guy at a party constantly checking out everyone else at the party, while he pretends to be speaking to the other person. We're the other person. The guy are the politicians. And the distraction is the corruption: We need a Congress that can afford to talk to…

Lawrence Lessig

Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check…

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There was actually some serious time in front of the mirror, checking yourself out, checking out your shirt, checking out your pants.Combing that hair.…

Rob Huebel