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'The ruckus' is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.
J. B. Smoove
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I was quite a shy child - not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.


Ben Whishaw
It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.
Harvey Pekar
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I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
Bill Bryson
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It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.
Ray LaMontagne
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As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.
Nic Pizzolatto
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I want to create economic opportunity at home and abroad. I don't want just one or the other. I want both.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family.


Lee Byung-hun
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Charles de Montesquieu
You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation. Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well-being; we had to accept being deprived of just being human.
Rosa Parks
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I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.
Dwayne Johnson
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It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.
Tim Berners-Lee
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I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
Derek Bailey
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I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before.
Alicia Keys
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At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are, and I feel like we are so blessed to have the support system and the best family to really just support each other no matter what we're going through.
Kim Kardashian
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All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.


Gloria Gaynor
You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
Fernando Botero
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To get anything done, Obama has to be seen as having winning economy - which isn't easy.


Tyler Cowen
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Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.


Nick Cannon
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I love going into a country and just blending.


Freida Pinto
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