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Related The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album. HALSEY To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big al... MARGO TIMMINS I realized you always have to go back to the roots. My vibe for this album was basically here, Brook... WYCLEF JEAN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO I want to go to Nashville and get cracking on this album. SCOTTY MCCREERY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Right now, this is definitely the final tour and the final album. We have made a decision, ... And, ... 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RICKY MARTIN All right, then, I'll go to hell. MARK TWAIN Are you kidding me? The thing is, I sing so much better now. I wish I could do the whole first recor... KATHY VALENTINE When I was growing up, my parents said to go to college and get a good job and then go try this. I d... JAMES NIGGEMEYER I think, for every artist, the second album is the most terrifying one to put out because it can eit... THOMAS RHETT I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I... ADAM PALLY Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sin... JASON ALDEAN I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My fi... T.I. What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ... LISA J. SHULTZ To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up t... RON PAUL Now, looking at the album, the finished product, it's been a tough row to hoe to get to the end of t... HEIDI NEWFIELD Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars. DAVID MACKAY I see a diamond that someone try to turn back into coal. CLOTILDE MARTINEZ I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But t... LUDACRIS The first time I really listened to an album and thought, 'This album is mine,' was Kanye... THEOPHILUS LONDON I decided I was going to be the first producer to have a manager. And those songs became the backgro... ALAN PARSONS When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put th... R. L. STINE Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite. SHANE L. KOYCZAN If I think the movie's not going to turn out, I quickly try and disassociate those feelings and push... GERARD BUTLER We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun. 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TOMAS SUROVY We play stuff from all of our albums because our fan base has been with us for so long. Kids are sin... ZACKY VENGEANCE Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars... CHARLES DUKE I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. J.D. SALINGER I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Sha... RUSSELL PETERS I'm 14 years in the game, ... There's some kids that weren't even born when my first album came out.... DJ QUIK When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We... GARY F EVANS... I just made my album. I did my best. 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