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Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.
‐‐ Little Richard -
Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor -
Like myself, President Obama is the father of two daughters. He understands the obstacles that they face as women, but he also understands the emergency of the state of young black men in America.
‐‐ Al Sharpton -
Like nightclubs and sporting events, entry into an amusement park is a permission to become someone else. We come for the experience and to relish it.
‐‐ Greg Rucka -
Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.
‐‐ Dennis Brown -
Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.
‐‐ Michael Leunig -
Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.
‐‐ Amy Lee -
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
‐‐ John Maynard Keynes -
Like, on the 'Parks And Rec' set, I still feel like I'm a guest star. Being a fan of the show, it's really surreal to be on the set and see that it's not real, and getting to know the actors and they're not their characters.
‐‐ Adam Scott -
Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
‐‐ Dalia Mogahed -
Like other Americans, U.S. journalists have often neglected the study of history; they have much remedial work to do in trying to understand who did what to whom, why and when - and who did it first.
‐‐ Henry Grunwald -
Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.
‐‐ Mario Monti -
Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations.
‐‐ Hu Jintao -
Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia -
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
‐‐ Jan Schakowsky -
Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.
‐‐ Steven Wright -
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
‐‐ Francesco Guicciardini -
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
‐‐ Robin G. Collingwood -
Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.
‐‐ Charles Jencks -
Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.
‐‐ Tony Buzan -
Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi -
Like patents - which also seek to protect the little guy - unions were started for all the right reasons. But like patents, they can be twisted into something that hurts innovation, competition, and ultimately consumers and the country as a whole.
‐‐ Sarah Lacy -
Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me.
‐‐ Meg White -
Like people, trees are all individuals.
‐‐ David Hockney -
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
‐‐ Bainbridge Colby -
Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.
‐‐ Albert J. Nock -
Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization that the battle for women's rights is not over, especially not globally, and that the moral imperative of our century is to achieve full rights for everyone regardless of gender.
‐‐ Adora Svitak -
Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.
‐‐ Seth Shostak -
Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
‐‐ Ira Glass -
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck -
Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.
‐‐ Terry Richardson -
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.
‐‐ Harvey Weinstein -
Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
‐‐ Benny Green -
Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.
‐‐ Toni Braxton -
Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.
‐‐ Martti Ahtisaari -
Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
‐‐ Ralph Nader -
Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost.
‐‐ Allen Klein -
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
‐‐ Thomas Moore -
Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.
‐‐ Michelle Obama -
Like so many Americans, I am sick and tired of watching the rapid decline of our culture right in front of our eyes.
‐‐ Paul Gosar -
Like so many aspiring writers who still have boxes of things they've written in their parents' houses, I filled notebooks with half-finished poems and stories and first paragraphs of novels that never got written.
‐‐ Ally Carter -
Like so many Boomers, I saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' in 1962 when it was first released and when we were young teenagers. I'm not quite sure why - I really wish some psychologist would explain this - but that movie had a tremendous effect on many of us.
‐‐ Mary Doria Russell -
Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is as much American as it is universal: a dream of equal opportunity for all based on merit, of power concentrated not in the hands of a few at the top, but fanning across a large, educated, and civically engaged middle class.
‐‐ Leila Janah -
Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.
‐‐ Clare Balding -
Like so many new moms, I felt anxiety over the impending birth of my daughter. However, most of the anxiety I felt was around the idea of raising a child. I wasn't focused on potential risks to my health or hers that could occur during the actual birth.
‐‐ Christy Turlington -
Like so many of the players, I started at La Masia at the age of 11. I can't ever imagine not playing for Barcelona, let alone not playing soccer for a career. I don't ever want to play anywhere else.
‐‐ Xavi -
Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up.
‐‐ Lauren Potter -
Like so many others, I came to romance during the golden age of it - Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Johanna Lindsey and Jude Deveraux were at the height of their historical domination. Without those women, I wouldn't be a romance novelist.
‐‐ Sarah MacLean -
Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine in TV commercials. So whenever anyone said I looked like Orson Welles I said that I wasn't that fat, and I would get on a diet, quickly.
‐‐ Christian McKay
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