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• I don't know how many years I can still play. I have to listen to my body and see how it feels.

  Li Na

  Years, Play, Body

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• I just like music all the way around the board. I can't stick to one thing - I've got to move around.

  Akon

  Moving, Sticks, Boards

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• I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Done, Firsts, Imagine

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• What I'm trying to do is be as honest as I can, and I don't normally do that.

  Mike Shanahan

  Trying, Honest

  "GM Bruce Allen says Redskins have 'no gaping holes' going into this week's NFL draft", www.foxnews.com. May 7, 2014.

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• Broken, hopeless, headed nowhere
  Only motivation for what the dealer's supplying
  That rush, that drug, that dope
  Those pills, that crumb, that roach
  Thinkin' I would never do that, not that drug
  and growing up nobody ever does
  Until your stuck, lookin' in the mirror like I can't believe what I've become
  Swore I was goin' to be someone
  And growing up everyone always does
  We sell our dreams and our potential
  To escape through that buzz

  Macklemore

  Dream, Growing Up, Motivation

  Song: Otherside

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• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  Macklemore

  Song, Sex, Writing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

  Raymond Williams

  Thinking, Class, Middle

  "Culture and Society". Book by Raymond Williams, 1958.

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• I have no reason to sit home and write songs all day without going out and playing for the folks. And I have no reason to go play for the folks unless I'm writing new songs so they can sort of feed off one another. And I just try to do the best I can.

  Guy Clark

  Song, Home, Writing

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• I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

  William Beebe

  Journey, Thinking, Water

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• My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.

  Jane Goodall

  Army, People, Effort

  "Then & Now: Jane Goodall". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Eye, Speaks Out, Prison

  Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall (1999). “Jane Goodall: 40 years at Gombe : a tribute to four decades of wildlife research, education, and conservation”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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• I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I can possibly do. I think God's greatest blessing to the human race was when He sent man forth into the world to earn his bread by the sweat of his face. I believe in toil, in the dignity of labor, but I also believe in adequate compensation for that toil.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Believe, Good Friend, Men

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• I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

  Juice Newton

  Past, Yesterday

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• But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can't pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that.

  Donna Summer

  Strong, Tired, Knowing

  "Donna Summer Revealed Her #1 Sex Fantasy & U Won’t Believe What She Said!". Penthouse Interview, www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com. September 13, 2015.

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• Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes I can't find myself any more. When did I stop being me?

  Sara Gruen

  Eye, Blue, Looks

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• When Rick Perry says I can do for America what I've done for Texas, pay attention. That's no idle threat.

  Jim Hightower

  Texas, America, Attention

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• The secret of my success over the 400m is that I run the first 200m as fast as I can. Then, for the second 200m, with God's help I run faster.

  Eric Liddell

  Running, Secret, Firsts

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• My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for errors and dangers averted, for enmity to the Gospel subdued, for food provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that goes to make up life and my poor service. I can testify, with a full and often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer.

  Mary Slessor

  Prayer, Believe, Errors

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• Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!

  Mary Slessor

  Jesus, Men, White Man

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• Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I picture my competitor sitting at a desk in his opposition house, thinking and thinking with the most devilish intensity and clearness, and I ask myself what I can do to be prepared for his next brilliant move.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Running, Business, Moving

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• I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Art, Mean

  Letter to Leopold Mozart, 8 Nov. 1777

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• Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

  John Coltrane

  Music, Men, Knowing

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• My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Father, Play

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• I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I make enough to live and eat, and I'm happy with my music-and that's all I need.

  Curtis Fuller

  Music, Play, Needs

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• Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

  Chico Hamilton

  Music, Beautiful, Jazz

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