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BEBE REXHA I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it th... SINEAD O'CONNOR I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it th... SINEAD O'CONNOR Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really ex... JACKIE EVANCHO My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I cou... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the... MIKE MCCUE I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in ... CAROL ANSHAW It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a d... COLLEEN ATWOOD My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody fo... WARREN G It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have... 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BRUCE STERLING Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to sta... BRUCE STERLING Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if ... BRUCE STERLING You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursue... BRUCE STERLING If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world,... BRUCE STERLING I wouldn't describe that 'position' as 'parasitic.' I'd describe that experi... BRUCE STERLING I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex. BRUCE STERLING Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music. BRUCE STERLING We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with... BRUCE STERLING I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ... BRUCE STERLING I don't think there's much distinction between surveillance and media in general. Better med... BRUCE STERLING I haven't had that good a time in ages. Since September 11, really. I just felt so happy, it was... BRUCE STERLING One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing. BRUCE STERLING The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for variou... BRUCE STERLING Sometimes letting go is the only way to find out who you're meant to hold on to. J. STERLING Now, for the first time, the President began to look genuinely powerful, even dangerous. This was a ... BRUCE STERLING Take away America's money, and you've got a country of tribes. BRUCE STERLING You're something, alright." I laughed into his bare chest, my eyes closing. "I'm your something..." ... J. STERLING The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them... BRUCE STERLING «Brixie wasn’t talking to him, or listening to him. Nothing like that at all. Brixie was off in h... BRUCE STERLING «“Everybody is in trouble with my dad. My dad only sort of gets the Internet. My dad started look... BRUCE STERLING «She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases th... BRUCE STERLING «Once, I went to this little meeting of Microsoft kids. Like, this high-school trip thing, but it w... BRUCE STERLING I like them because they had some success last year. They beat Kansas in the first round last year. LEE STERLING We were all sitting around at the staging area and talking to the boys from Springhill, La. We were ... RONNIE STERLING They were bumping into each other all the time. ROBERT STERLING Sometimes life gets ugly before it gets beautiful J. STERLING A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. K All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination. K. FORD K. Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and o... JULIUS STERLING MORTON The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, an... JULIUS STERLING MORTON Of all the tyrants the world affords,
Our own affections are the fiercest lords. EARL OF STERLING Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes fo... JULIUS STERLING MORTON When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen... K. FLAY My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization. K. FLAY I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ... K. FLAY A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure. K. FLAY I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a... K. FLAY Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuse... K. FLAY Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiske... K. FLAY I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost... K. FLAY My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of s... K. FLAY I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice. K. FLAY I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present... K. FLAY The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or... K. FLAY