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SAMPHA Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
KARL ROVE It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not ha...
JENNIFER ANISTON The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b...
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HALSEY Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.
ELLIOTT YAMIN I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's ...
JAY-Z How to get it, I annoy you???
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DEYTH BANGER I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a stateme...
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B.O.B 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this ...
FRAN KRANZ That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
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JONATHAN AMES No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's somethin...
ROBERT PLANT Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.
WATT KEY For me, it's about being comfortable... but I can feel comfortable in a thong leotard and on sta...
JILLIAN HERVEY It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
JOYCE CAROL OATES I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, a...
DAVID LISS I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. I...
JONATHAN ANDERSON You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comforta...
RIHANNA You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and ce...
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel t...
STEVEN HATFILL No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.
ALVIN AILEY I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, a...
KIESZA When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Be...
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BILL CALLAHAN To stand on the
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AMY SEDARIS If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about tha...
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MICHAEL LANDES Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were...
MICHAEL BERGIN Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of ge...
MICHAEL POLLAN Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. ...
MICHAEL GREGER I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo...
MICHAEL BOND I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in...
MICHAEL STRAHAN Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills,...
MICHAEL MOSS I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
MICHAEL GOVE I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front li...
MICHAEL CONNELLY I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a sy...
MICHAEL PHELPS Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ...
MICHAEL MOORE Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel exclude...
MICHAEL MEDVED One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if...
MICHAEL KORDA Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionall...
MICHAEL DIRDA The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. ...
MICHAEL WEATHERLY All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the re...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf w...
MICHAEL GREGER Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.
MICHAEL EKLUND I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like...
MICHAEL SYMON Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now ...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF In early 2005, I really studied the prospectuses of these mortgage pools that were tranched out into...
MICHAEL BURRY Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with ...
MICHAEL JOHNSON The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and...
MICHAEL LEUNIG I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's w...
MICHAEL LEARNED I am an English-speaking Canadian, but my entire family - Russian exiles and the Canadians they marr...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF If you're going away, be sure to cancel the paper, the milk, and the laundry pickup. Remove the ...
MICHAEL FROME I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.
MICHAEL MINA I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and th...
MICHAEL PORTER The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
MICHAEL GERBER A lot of people have experimented with hidden cameras and magic before. What I do, which I think is ...
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