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“If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best. NO EXCEPTIONS”
Source : "Kanye West tells a story with his biggest hits, at the glow in the Dark Tour's L.A. stop" by Sarah Wilson, www.mtv.com. April 23, 2008. 
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“The factory meat industry has polluted thousands of miles of America's rivers, killed billions of fish, pushed tens of thousands of family farmers off their land, sickened and killed thousands of U.S. citizens, and treated millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty.”
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“What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall- what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing.”
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“I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows as a poisonous stem. If we remove fundamentalism and keep religion, then one day or another fundamentalism will grow again. I need to say that because some liberals always defend Islam and blame fundamentalists for creating problems. But Islam itself oppresses women. Islam itself doesn't permit democracy and it violates human rights.”
Source : Interview with Matt Cherry and Warren Allen Smith, www.secularhumanism.org. December 31, 1998.
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“I did a lot of writing when I was in college, and that's what I thought I wanted to do; saying that I wanted to be a writer seemed more reasonable than saying I wanted to be a musician.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided what you were going to believe and that was that. Whether you liked it or not.”
Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.6, Pan Macmillan
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“For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.”
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“We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.”
