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Our parents, loved ones, and friends are getting cancer. So we need to know how to care for them, support them, and understand what the hell is going on. I don't think it's that hard to reach them: you have to go where they are – online. You have to speak their language – humour, wit, and edge. And you have to be honest, authentic and bold.

Bold • Cancer • Care • Friends • Hard • Hell • Honest Authentic • Language Humour Wit • Loved • Online • Parents • Support

I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.

Different Way • Guitar • Head • Keyboards • Keys • Look • Looking • Lot • Me • Real • Sound • Trying • You

I still get rejections – frequently – and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

Victoria Elizabeth Schwab

Constantly • Critique • Down • Fail • Goal • Myself • Order • Rejection • Rejections • Simply • Succeed • Turned

I would only create clothes myself if I felt I could do something really different – create a new style subculture for my generation – and that is very ambitious.

Clothes • Different • Felt • Generation • Myself • New • Something • Style • Style Subculture

I was going to be a doctor since I was three, so I was pre-med in college. Everything I did, every class I took, pointed toward the 'holy M.D.' Friends were taking wine-tasting classes, studying human sexuality, or redefining their views of the world in poli-sci, and I was memorizing anatomy and crying over o-chem.

College • Doctor • Every Class • Everything • Friends • Holy • Human Sexuality • Three • Winetasting • World

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

Actually • Belief • Challenging • Front • Hope • People • Positive • Struggle • Times • You

My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.

Adult Things • Brother • Doing • Listening • Me • Music • Old music • Up • Years Older

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

W. Averell Harriman

Effort • LendLease • Number • Plants • Russians • Thought • War • Washington

It would be better to be recognized first for music, but people go with what they like. If I'm here because I'm recognized more so as a style icon, then, if I'm smart enough, I will use this opportunity to share more insight about my music.

Better • Enough • Icon • Music • Opportunity • People • Recognized • Recognized First • Smart • Style

Stage outfits are loud, outspoken, glamorous, fancy, and very different from normal day-to-day clothing. Therefore, by its nature, it is experimental.

Clothing • Daytoday • Different • Glamorous • Loud • Nature • Normal • Outspoken • Stage • Stage Outfits

I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.

Actually • End • Extremes • Model • Normal • Paris • Proportions • Think • Thought • World

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

Alternative Music • Get • Kids • Meeting • Music • Thrill • Thrill Meeting • Who

The transfer of power is always a test of the constitutional system, a test of its strength.

Always • Constitutional • Power • Strength • System • Test • Transfer

There have been so many incredible moments since the start of this organization. One that stands out specifically is when an anonymous businessman triple-matched our donation to Memorial Sloan Kettering after our NYC event.

Anonymous Businessman • Donation • Many • Memorial Sloan • Moments • NYC • Organization • Specifically • Start

I used to play – when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.

First • Jockey • Memphis • Play • Professional • Tennessee • Trying • Used

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

Abroad • Activities • Eye • Financing • Keep • Political • Possible • Russia • State

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Alan Alexander Milne

Flowers • Gardening • Know • Once • Weeds • You

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

Better • Black • Fountain • Water • White • White Fountain

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

Anger • Angry • Anybody • Friends • Like • Me • Rather

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

Musically • Own • Sophisticated • Thing

Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it… if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.

Family • Family Cooks • Growing Up • Kitchen • Time • Up

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

Complaining • Done • Exciting • Life • Lot • Much • Somebody • Story • Things • Wish

Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

Always • Cold • Cold War • Confrontation • Intense • Military • War • Years

Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.

Concerns Collecting Information Differs Little • Intelligence • Intelligence Work • Interesting • Job • Journalism • Journalist • Work

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Elwyn Brooks White

Acceptance • Age • Atom • Man • New • Power • Speed • Terror • Violence

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

Frederick Edwin Smith

Continues • Glittering • Hearts • Offer • Prizes • Sharp • Swords • Who • World

McCain fought in Vietnam – I think that he has enough civilian blood on his hands.

Blood • Civilian Blood • Enough • Fought • Hands • He • McCain • Think • Vietnam

No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

Army • Believe • Doubts • Every • Gas • Opposition Forces • Poison • Powerful • Reason • Syria • Syrian

In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

Baptist • Choir • Church • Gospel • Guitar • Local • Me • Minister • Myself • One • Play • Positions • Taught • Three

John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.

Definitely • Down • Favorite • Hands • John • Lennon