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Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.
‐‐ Daryl Hall -
Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.
‐‐ Simon Mainwaring -
Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.
‐‐ Rick Moranis -
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges -
Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.
‐‐ Hugh Hopper -
Like all women, I've had a pretty awful time in many ways, but it's always possible to either make a joke or find someone else.
‐‐ Emma Tennant -
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
‐‐ Jorge Luis Borges -
Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.
‐‐ Jennifer Haigh -
Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
‐‐ Darin Strauss -
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
‐‐ Lawrence Durrell -
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of.
‐‐ Russell Baker -
Like almost every major infrastructure, the Internet can be abused and its users harmed. We must, however, take great care that the cure for these ills does not do more harm than good. The benefits of the open and accessible Internet are nearly incalculable, and their loss would wreak significant social and economic damage.
‐‐ Vint Cerf -
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.
‐‐ Bill Gates -
Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard -
Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
‐‐ Todd Gitlin -
Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.
‐‐ Gavin Bryars -
Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle -
Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.
‐‐ Tony Curtis -
Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.
‐‐ James Wolcott -
Like any business, the oil industry runs on the basic premise of supply and demand. The more supply - the lower the price. The higher the demand - the higher price. In other words, the more people who can buy oil, the higher the price of oil.
‐‐ Ron Wyden -
Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe -
Like any decent researcher, I throw away 90% of my research.
‐‐ Kevin Crossley-Holland -
Like any director working today, I started out when somebody took a shot at hiring me. It's how we all start out - male, female, white or minority.
‐‐ Lesli Linka Glatter -
Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.
‐‐ Michael Rapaport -
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
‐‐ Martin Freeman -
Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.
‐‐ Charles Bass -
Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
‐‐ Billy Corgan -
Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.
‐‐ J. C. Watts -
Like any kind of writing, there are good days and frustrating days. But even frustrating days can be rewarding sometimes.
‐‐ Ethan Coen -
Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.
‐‐ Cate Blanchett -
Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.
‐‐ Donnie Yen -
Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'
‐‐ John Boyega -
Like any other boy in the world that does a little bit of rough-and-tumble and playing around when they're a kid, who doesn't want to be an action star at some point?
‐‐ Chris Vance -
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
‐‐ Carlisle Floyd -
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
‐‐ Paul Robeson -
Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.
‐‐ Sarah Rees Brennan -
Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
‐‐ James Blunt -
Like any self-governing group of people, the Recording Academy has made missteps over the years. Still, it has corrected course and done more to open its arms to the future than nearly any other industry group around.
‐‐ Shawn Amos -
Like any show, I think some episodes are going to be stronger than others, but I think it's a good show that people enjoy and I hear the reactions too.
‐‐ Anthony Michael Hall -
Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
‐‐ Gavin Newsom -
Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies in winter made me want to taste those unworldly showers of light in person.
‐‐ Pico Iyer -
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
‐‐ Bill Gates -
Like any woman, I worry about my body.
‐‐ Helena Christensen -
Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad.
‐‐ Ruby Wax -
Like any young person, I do what I want.
‐‐ Anna Kournikova -
Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
‐‐ Beau Willimon -
Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell -
Like anyone else, I enjoy my days off.
‐‐ Venus Williams -
Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.
‐‐ Jason Biggs
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