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• If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.

  Phil Collins

  Interesting, Albums, Would Be

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• There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

  Lauren Conrad

  Hard Work, Passion, Dedication

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• I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

  Bryan Cranston

  Laughing, Facts, Comedy

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• Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film Funny Girl at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Believe, Funny Motivational

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2007.

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• For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

  Brian Eno

  Magic, Kind, Form

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• My dad turned me onto Peter Sellers as a kid. I loved the fact that he was a unique combination of being extremely subtle and over-the-top all at the same time, and that's a hard thing to do. I admire that.

  Will Ferrell

  Dad, Kids, Unique

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• It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Beautiful, Ipads, Three

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• Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

  Thomas Frank

  Cutting, Bags, Done

  "No Future for You" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2008.

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• I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.

  Seth Godin

  Long Walks, Bridges, Want

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• Every day I'd say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry - it's the perfect combination of formal and punky.

  Ellie Goulding

  Stars, Rocks, Leather Jackets

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

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• You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

  Grimes

  Rocks, Tin, Done

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• I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests' lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I'm interviewing somebody, I'm getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.

  Terry Gross

  Memories, Self, Knowing

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• People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, People, Way

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• For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the US as a geopolitical player.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Player, Views, Negative

  "Pakistan is at last finding its voice. The US would be wise not to gag it" by Mohsin Hamid, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2008.

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• I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

  Hugh Hefner

  Play, Perfect, Would Be

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• I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.

  Linda Hunt

  Thinking, People, Underdog

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• Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mind, Culture, Biology

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• There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fashion, Ambitious, Lines

  "Mindy Kaling: 'People think that because I like girly things I'm dumb'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

  Kesha

  Inspirational, Dance, Thinking

  "Britney Spears should be ashamed of her miming, says rising star Ke$ha". Daily Record Interview, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. March 3, 2010.

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• Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sound, Different, Language

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• I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

  Penny Marshall

  Insecurity, Strange, Massive

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

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• Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Powerful, Successful, Opposites

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• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Religious, Ivf, Dna

  "Human Clones: Why Not?" by Nathan Myhrvold, www.slate.com. March 14, 1997.

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• The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Opportunity, Needs, Addresses

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• Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Iran, Community

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