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“I've always felt that people's ears are wider than programmers are ever wiling to give them credit for. It's always been very important to me that you not have to turn me off because your kids are in the back seat.”
Source : "Special guest Donnie Simpson, more on Pop Culture With Paul Farhi". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. February 2, 2010. 
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“We look for God as though he were not already here.”
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“Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.”
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“I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.”
Source : "'Sleeping Beauty' Star Emily Browning: 'I knew it would be more intense than anything I’ve done before'". Interview with Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. November 30, 2011.
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“I just had - we had instances - like, for instance, when I turned 13, she threw me a bar mitzvah. But nobody came.But nobody came because nobody knew what the hell that was. I only had black friends. No one knows what the hell you're doing.”
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“My main goal, and it's a big one, is that every child has a chance to get close to music - as a right - that as they have access to food, health, and education, they get the chance to have art and culture - especially music.”
Source : "Why Music, Part 5: Music and Education" by Frank Fitzpatrick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 3, 2012.
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“I have a problem with a lot of men's fragrances because they are very strong. Somebody somewhere thinks that masculine means powerful smells, and I find them overbearing and not very pleasant.”
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“I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.”
