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" My mom has always been a huge inspiration. She was a single mom raising two kids in New York. Now that is full-on all the time. " - Kim Raver

" When an elephant is by himself, he can attack lions and get away with it. " - Dereck Chisora

" I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I’ve ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if I’m writing for a rapper, but I’d still write it as though it was for myself and then sometimes I’m actually asked to do the part. " - Skylar Grey

" By August of 2003, I had graduated from Rutgers, gone through a stretch of living at my parents’ house, and wound up sharing an apartment with a college friend of mine in Montclair, New Jersey. " - Chris Gethard

" I came up different; I took a different route. I want to lead my own path. " - DeMar DeRozan

" Everyone else is too busy judging themselves to be thinking badly of you. " - Darren Hayes

" I’m a really good hacker, but I’m not a sensible person. " - Richard D. James

" If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years. " - Ginny Brown-Waite

" We’ve got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security. " - Stephen Harper

" The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic. " - Pierre Schaeffer