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Prince Fielder Baseball Player
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"A friend of mine asked me a question at the end of 2015. We were going over my finances and setting things up for the future when she said, "What do you want to do when you retire?" I said, "I always wanted to do a food show.""

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Peter Gabriel Musician
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"I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music."

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Paul Simon Musician, Songwriter
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"Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy."

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"I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone."

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Dan Brown Author
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"Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe."

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"I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want."

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday."

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Abbey Lincoln Jazz Singer, Actress
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"But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying."

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