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~Marlene Dietrich

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I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

Black • Blues • Brother • People • Poor • Red • Rich • White • Yellow

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

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

Action • Authorization • Council • Countries • Fate • Influential • League • Military • Nations • Possible • Real • Security • United

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

Elwyn Brooks White

Bylaws • Club • Easier • He • Loyal • Man • Personally • Planet • Shorter

You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end; that's the only way you'll succeed.

Believe • Believe In Yourself • Challenge • Way • Yourself

I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.

Actually • Decisions • Gamers • Great • Matter • May • Movies • Products • Purchase • Real Hardware • Running • Shown • Visuals • Worry

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

Art • Country • High Regard • Language • Loser • Music • Otherwise • Success

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Bacterial • Guitar • Infection • Play • Sing • Talking • Walking

I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.

Am • Designer • Fashion • Fashion Designer • Guess • I Am • Me • Overpacker

Do I love the road? Honestly? No – but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

Blues • Job • Kind • Living • Love • Road

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Governments • Liars • Nothing • Run • Say • They Say

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people – like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

Better • Concern • First Time • Head • Inlaws • Last • Last Concert • Nervous • Onstage • People • Think • Time • You

As a successful romantic novelist – one of my publishers is Mills & Boon – I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

Phyllis Christine Cast

Create • Hope • Male Heroes • Men • Mills Amp Boon • Publishers • Real • Romantic • Sort • Successful Romantic Novelist • Woman

When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.

Amazing • Amazing Cook • Dad • Every Weekend • Everyone • Family • Go • Growing Up • Lot • Weekend

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

Choice • Democratic • Democratic Choice • Early • Final • Made • People • Russian

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them… 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

Black Messiah • Change • Collectively • Community • Egypt • Every Place • Feeling • Leader • Man • Occupy Wall • One Charismatic Leader • People • Thousands

We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.

Around • Circle • Focus • Focus Group • Group • Nashville • People • Songs • Trying • Us

I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.

Country • Electronic Music Either • Ever • Making • Music • Stop • Want

There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse.

Nora K. Jemisin

Black • Color • Field • Groups • Know • Particularly Black Fiction • People • Recourse • Same • Selfpublished Stuff • Stuff

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

Attacks • Community • Fight • Inhuman • International • Murder • People • Phenomena • Terror • Think • Unite

I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the inner state of the soul.

Every • External Display • Faith • Heart • Him • Inner • Inside • Matters • Person • Soul • State • Think

In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

Nora K. Jemisin

Books • Chance • Epic • Hate • Love • Politics • Society

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should be having any doubts.

Astray • Choice • Democracy • Direction • Doubts • Early • Led • Nobody • People • Russian

Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

Frederick Edwin Smith

Club • God • Good • Mean • Place • Say • You

Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.

Aware • Conscious • Cool • Cool Thing • Culture • Hats • Know • Lyrics • Malcolm • Music • People • Popular • Public • Trendy • Tshirts

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

Able • Best • Children • Father • Fortunately • Good • Kids • Life • Onenighters • Road • Thing • Work

A lot of concerts leave you wanting for something good to eat or drink while you're there.

Concerts • Drink • Eat • Good • Leave • Lot • Something Good • You

USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

O'Shea Jackson Jr

Cinema • Developed • Love • Really • USC

Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height – or to slouch.

Approve • Exception • Girls • Heels • Height • Me • Mother • She • Teenage • Want

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

Family • Father • Mother • Ordinary • Ordinary Citizens • Ordinary Family • Up • Worker