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Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band. ↗

— Bob Geldof

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I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. ↗

— Taylor Swift

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We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. ↗

— Deborah Tannen

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There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others. ↗

— Richard Grasso

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Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ. ↗

— David Guetta

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I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

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