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• A lot of times when people listen to music it's because they feel down, and that's when serious hip-hop comes into play. When times is hard, people can hear a rapper that inspires them to do what they [are] supposed to do.

  Rakim

  Rapper, Play, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

  Cate Blanchett

  Light, Doors, Things I Love

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

  Keith Rabois

  Two, Office, Venture Capitalists

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• If I have a bad hair day, I just think, Well, it will be an OK hair day tomorrow. Just put your head down and go. Life is a bit like being on a roller coaster, which is, You get on and there's no stopping along the way. There are some days when you feel like this is pretty tough, and there are the days that are exhilarating, but you just keep on going.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Hair, Stopping

  Interview with Damon Beres, www.rd.com.

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• I sat down and came up with a caption that I thought would fit well on the poster - something that was short and succinct but got a point across. The latest poster was a direct quote - it was exactly what the woman told me.

  Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

  Fit, Posters, Caption

  "Meet the Woman Who Waged an Artistic War Against Her Street Harassers". Interview with Nina Liss-Schultz, www.motherjones.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Find something you love and commit. Commit 100%. Put your head down, and work as hard as you can. Make it as best you can, and that's all you can really do. It doesn't sound like much, but lots of people don't do the work. And it's not men or women. Lots of people like to be the director, but don't like to do a lot of the work that is sometimes quite tedious.

  Jen McGowan

  Men, People, Sound

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If coal wants a place in a carbon-constrained future, they have to look at technology like this. And we think that our rule can help stimulate technology, growth, and innovation, bring those costs down, and allow coal a more stable opportunity to continue to be invested in.

  Gina McCarthy

  Technology, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I wish I had more time to sit down and be a little bit more normal.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Wish, Littles, Normal

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• When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

  Tupac Shakur

  Song, Memories, Angel

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• Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful. Certain modes of behaviour have been laid down and proved beneficial by centuries of practice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Practice, Tolerance, Way

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• I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

  John Updike

  Want, Young Writers, Silent

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• He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.

  Andy Roddick

  Player, League, Way

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• A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.

  Carl Sandburg

  People, Tree

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• Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player.

  Jim Abbott

  Player, Analyzing, Way

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• One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book

  David McCullough

  Art, Book, Reading

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• The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fall, Air, Stones

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• Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me

  Keith Thurman

  Sleep, Knowing, People

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• Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.

  Justin Torres

  Memories, Emotional, Childhood

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

  David Shrigley

  Life And Death, Water, Jugs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Don't take anything personally. You're going to come up against a lot and the best thing is to ignore it and don't let the bastards get you down and keep moving forward because you are going to be treated differently.

  Leslye Headland

  Moving, Come Up, Best Things

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all the time in your own room and never see another musician your whole life. We can't understand that in Mali.

  Vieux Farka Toure

  Song, Thinking, Play

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• Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Should

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I very much love a physical book myself. I think people who have had this experience of also seeing a book come together, from sitting down and writing the first word, to holding the binding in your hand, we have a deeper sentimental attachment to it than others might.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. June 2010.

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• We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a system that's making us working harder, and isn't giving us satisfaction. We've got to sit down and decide what the hell we really want to be as human beings.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Government, Giving, Together

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.

  Jerome Ringo

  Children, Role Models, Roles

  "The Pioneer". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. April 25, 2005.

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