"Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity."

-- Clay Aiken

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“Dear young people, please, donâ€™t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Donâ€™t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.”

Source : Pope Francis' address to the Prayer Vigil with the young people during the apostolic journey to Rio de Janeiro on the occasion of the XXVIII World Youth Day, at Waterfront of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, w2.vatican.va. July 27, 2013.
“Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.”
“I define myself by everything that I love, everything I can create, everything that I can imagine.”
“We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.”
“I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.”
“My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.”
“When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.”
“My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.”

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