Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person. ~Louise Slaughter
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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I'm used to explaining to people why my jokes were funny. ~Gilbert Gottfried
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. ~Sylvia Earle
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We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. ~George William Russell
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Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. ~Turkish Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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You don't run out on people; you run out on yourself. ~Truman Capote
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ~Junior Seau
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In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. ~John Burroughs
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It was as if Snape had started handing out sweets. ~J. K. Rowling
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If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican. ~Elton John
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We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season. ~Kim Clijsters
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The end never comes when you think it will. It is always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. ~Lena Dunham
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
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Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things. ~Bethenny Frankel
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A good horse will never return to graze on grass it has already passed by. ~Chinese Proverb
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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