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• People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.

  Talib Kweli

  Stars, Thinking, People

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• I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Children, Nuts, Evil

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• My parents said I'd always been attracted to music from an early age. The classic story is I started singing before I talked. My Mom would play me tapes, and I'd be able to sing them back perfectly. She said my pitch was dead on, but I'd fill in nonsense syllables for all the rest of it. The words would be all garbled, because I didn't know how to talk yet.

  Vienna Teng

  Mom, Play, Parent

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• I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!

  Willem de Kooning

  Dimples, Students, Rubens

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

  Mark Twain

  Book, Praise

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• The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions.

  Cam Newton

  Sports, Individuality, Mixing

  "Cam Newton Wants to Teach You How to Wear a Sweater". Interview with Nic Screws, www.bloomberg.com. December 29, 2015.

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• It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Moron, Fallacy

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• I grew up on classic Nintendo, which was amazing. My best friends were hardcore into it.

  Johanna Braddy

  My Best Friend, Nintendo, Hardcore

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Illustration, Target, Terrorism

  Interview with Paula Zahn, edition.cnn.com. May 30, 2002.

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• Whenever I think I know something is a classic, or an amazing song, I realise it's still so subjective, because you and your friends could be talking about something, say, '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' - an amazing classic song - or someone would be like, "'Hey Jude' is an amazing song!", and I'd be like, "I don't really like it."

  Jay Watson

  Song, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The financial crisis was a classic case of the political class failing the American people. Twenty-five agencies were supposed to be minding the store during the financial crisis and every one of them was asleep at the switch.

  Carly Fiorina

  Agency, Class, People

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Mother, Ideas, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

  Joseph Boyden

  Ideas, Greek, Tragedy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

  Arthur Bradford

  Writing, Adults, London

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• The irony is that Iraq actually has one of the richest and most sophisticated cuisines in the world. So many classic American or European foods - ceviche, albondigas, even the mint julep - have roots in Iraqi cuisine, which was a crossroads of Persian and Arab and Turkic traditions. The oldest written recipes in the world are from Iraq!

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Roots, Iraq, Recipes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Zoos, Sadness, Oakland

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression.

  M. Ward

  Song, Matter, Matching

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

  George Ezra

  Running, Teenager, Kind

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Writing, Style

  "A Conversation with Wendy Starland". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, March 1, 2015.

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• If you follow a trend, by the time it is released it will sound like the same regurgitated music that the public has been hearing for the past eight months (at least.) I am not referring to genres or production that is considered to be timeless or "classic" sounding.

  Wendy Starland

  Past, Eight, Months

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

  Victoria Chang

  Opposites, People, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."

  Matthew Specktor

  Book, Mean, Night

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think that "Arabs coming out in droves" is so violative Jewish values that non-Jews admire so much about Jewish people throughout history, of welcoming the stranger, of standing up for the outsider, of defending the marginalized. This was classic us against them. This was the narrowest and meanest of politics, to which Jews, sadly and tragically, around the world have been subjected to.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Jewish Values, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse.

  Marco Roth

  Too Late, Stories, Use

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A great song will be great forever - it's timeless and classic in that way.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Song, Forever, Way

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