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If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#citizens #day #die #died #entire

'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that. ↗

— Fantasia Barrino

#cause #child #feel #had #i

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#always #back #behind #cartoonist #cartoons

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage. ↗

— Todd Barry

#comedy #comic #could #decide #during

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#beautiful #butterflies #butterfly #everyone #graceful

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#childish #definitely #else #ever #fantastic

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#baroque #classic #composers #even #greatest

We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#composer #consider #everything #first #opera

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#downtown #exciting #go #great #i

I start a picture and I finish it. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#i #picture #start