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NICHOLAS SPARKS The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of... QUENTIN BRYCE But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't expla... JOHN FAHEY Nothing ever gets settled in this town.. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops... GEORGE P. SHULTZ I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there a... KRISTEN BELL Print is very important because I think there is nothing like the tactile sense of picking up a maga... EVA CHEN You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether i... RUSSELL SIMMONS Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel. DON RICKLES I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the... P. J. 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EARL SWEATSHIRT Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture. EARL SWEATSHIRT It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste. EARL SWEATSHIRT Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's n... EARL SWEATSHIRT All rappers are princesses like me. EARL SWEATSHIRT My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I t... EARL SWEATSHIRT Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight. EARL SWEATSHIRT People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of cha... EARL SWEATSHIRT Rapping is the only time I'm serious. EARL SWEATSHIRT Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it. EARL SWEATSHIRT At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess. EARL SWEATSHIRT It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know... EARL SWEATSHIRT I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sens... EARL SWEATSHIRT At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy. EARL SWEATSHIRT That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager t... EARL SCRUGGS She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's pa... EARL SCRUGGS I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times wh... EARL SCRUGGS I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention. EARL SCRUGGS I don't think you'll ever get enough picking. EARL SCRUGGS He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one ... 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