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• Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Directors, Best Experiences, Able

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The true marker of success is when the creative minds behind a film can sit down and feel that they have succeeded in the mission they set out to accomplish - and that is to make good cinema. If we feel that we have achieved that as a team, then we have all been successful.

  Aamir Khan

  Team, Successful, Creative

  Source: www.danielpillai.com

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• There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our brains because we were going to write everything down and not have to remember anything, and so it would atrophy our brains. So there has always been this human drive on the one hand to create tools, to create technologies to overcome our boundaries, but then there is always this reservation, and this fear that say these technologies are somehow unnatural and it is against nature to partake in them.

  Jason Silva

  Writing, Technology, Hands

  Source: alejandrotrojas.com

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• I had $20 million in the bank, girls are following me all over the f - place, people call my name everywhere I go. What would I change? And then one day you get onstage and you see two little girls who look like they are 11 years old sticking their tongues out and pulling their bras down and you quit touring. That's what happened to me.

  Rick James

  Girl, Years, Names

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I would love to go to smaller places in the UK such as Manchester and Liverpool and play there. It's much more intimate; you got to get down and gritty, getting closer to the people.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Play, People, Intimate

  Source: www.contactmusic.com

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• [Charlie "Bird" Parker] would sit down and ask [Phil Wood], "What do you think about this whole secondary Viennese school with Schoenberg, Berg and Webern? Are you listening to that music and what do you feel about it?" These were the conversations that he was having. And he also said, what he learned from Charlie Parker was, not that he studied with him in the formal sense, is that the first thing that Charlie Parker would always ask was, "Did you eat today?".

  Jon Gordon

  School, Thinking, Bird

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• I was able to go over [Saxophone Competition] and work a little more in Europe. I'm thankful that those of kinds of things. Simultaneously, some nice things did come in. I got a nice festival that came in, in Virginia through that. There was a club that opened in DC in the famous Willard Hotel near the White House. And the club was called The Nest. I played there a few nights. Some musicians in Philly and D.C. kind of brought me down and got me on a couple things. So things opened up a little bit.

  Jon Gordon

  Couple, Nice, Night

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• I can't deny that I was an intellectual prostitute along the way many, many times in college. I can remember one examination where they said. "Describe the Devil," and in order to get 12 points on that question one had to say that the Devil was red and had a forked tail and cloven hoofs and fangs and horns on his head. So I merrily wrote this answer down and got my 12 points. I always got straight hundreds in Bible study.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  College, Order, Intellectual

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• Those who have studied the Bible Code know that everything that has ever happened in the past, in the future or in the present is already written down, and they never found an error until 1998, when they did.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Past, Errors, Found

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• When I came to Detroit, if you threw a stone up in the air it would hit an autoworker on its way down. A few years after that, if you threw a stone in the air it'd hit an abandoned house or a vacant lot on its way down. And most people saw those vacant lots as blight. But meanwhile during World War II, blacks had moved from the South to the North. And they saw these vacant lots as places where you could grow food for the community. And so urban agriculture was born.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  War, Agriculture, Air

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You know, Steve Jobs came to the music industry and pitched them the idea and they kept shootin' him down and shootin' him down, and now he makes money off the whole music industry regardless. Which is a minor part of his empire, 'cause obviously it's gadgets that make him all of his money. But regardless, he has basically monopolized the music game.

  Pitbull

  Jobs, Games, Ideas

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

  J. Cole

  Song, Art, Two

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm 64, but I act like I'm still 12. I go to schools. At colleges, they come out in droves, they almost scare me. I think it's just to see if I'm still alive. After I work them out - and it's not easy - I sit them down and we have a serious talk. Are they eating? Working on their body? I can say things parents won't say. No matter where I go, I talk to each one individually after I teach. They tell me things like, 'I'm starving, guys like girls thinner.' I give them concrete advice about self-image and self-worth.

  Richard Simmons

  Girl, School, Self Worth

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I do not think that there need be the conflict between books and videos, that one would drive out the other. It certainly is possible to watch the screen for some things and for others to sit down and read, because the screen is easier to do, to watch is easier than to read because you don't have to contemplate anything. Someone else has done the work of putting it on the video.

  Chinua Achebe

  Book, Thinking, Watches

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• When I became an adult, I had absolutely nothing against drinking alcohol. Many of my friends drank. I would often make wine and offer it, but I never sat down and drank it myself. That affect my religious practice.

  David C. Driskell

  Religious, Drinking, Wine

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college. When I hear some of that, I think that is not who I am, he doesn't know me or what I teach. I always talk about God rewards obedience. When you follow His way, the Bible says that His blessings will chase you down and overtake you.

  Joel Osteen

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating people over the head, it's just weighted down and it's like, "oohhh I can't relate." People are able to relate because we talked about things that everyone has experienced, it doesn't matter your race or genre. Music was your mainstay. There was something in our element of music that connected.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Simple, Race, People

  Source: jessemuhammad.blogs.finalcall.com

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• When you're directing you're kind of interested in the movie and the story and the characters. I just sort of prefer the really tough fighting and some of the other street fighting type moves. You know, where it's not just show. It's not dressing it up for the cameras too much. It's pretty down and dirty, the way it should be. That's something I like to do. I do that.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Dirty, Moving, Character

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.

  Willie Aames

  Jesus, Hurt, Kids

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• In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

  Adele

  Self Esteem, Years, People

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• Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

  Stella Adler

  Life, Music, Crush

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

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• You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.

  Sharron Angle

  Jobs, Government, Unemployment

  "Rachel Maddow Show", www.today.com. June 30, 2010.

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• I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Balls, Periods

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• We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else.

  Michele Bachmann

  Strong, Believe, Fighting

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• Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

  Russell Baker

  Funny, Break Up, Work

  "The Plot Against People". The New York Times, June 18, 1968.

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