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• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  Ed Sheeran

  Cds, Dublin, Want

  "Interview with UK Pop Sensation Ed Sheeran". Interview with Marian Tuin, www.axs.com. January 20, 2012.

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• My dad worked two jobs and moved us to the suburbs, and just being a black person, I went through a lot of racism and being called names and being bullied every single day. And it was hard. I didn't have any friends.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Jobs, Dad, Names

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• I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.

  Bruce Springsteen

  People, Band, Assuming

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• My musical taste has always been wide. I started out as a folky before I moved on to blues and soul.

  Rod Stewart

  Soul, Musical, Moved On

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• Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Country, Growing Up, Kids

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About...well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

  James Surowiecki

  Running, Real, Self

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• 'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.

  Josh Turner

  Song, Energy, Firsts

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• After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.

  Tina Turner

  Mother, Band, Older Sister

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2005.

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• Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago.

  Steve Vai

  Play, Years, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.

  Dwyane Wade

  Mother, Father, Son

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• I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'

  Dwyane Wade

  College, Illinois, Cities

  "Dwyane Wade: Basketball Dad". Interview with Moira Lawler, www.menshealth.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Years, Musician

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• Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

  Jimmy Wales

  Long, Important, Three

  The Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. June 29, 2007.

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• You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fire, Police, Occupy Movement

  "Elizabeth Warren: 'There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own'". Campaign video clip, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.

  J. C. Watts

  Ladders, Knows, Ifs

  "10 questions for J.C. Watts". Interview with Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.

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• We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Success, Artist, Boys

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• If somebody comes up to me, it's because they're moved by something I'm moved by. I've never taken a job I didn't love... So when somebody's coming up to me, or they're writing, they're in the same space I am in.

  Joss Whedon

  Jobs, Taken, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

  Kate Winslet

  Sister, House, Parent

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• A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

  James Wolcott

  Fun, Reflection, Class

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• Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

  Sarah Zettel

  Doors, Way, Next

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• Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.

  David A. Bednar

  Strong, Healing, Sick

  "That We Might “Not … Shrink” (D&C 19:18)". www.lds.org. March 3, 2013.

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• Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Prayer, Safety, Delay

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• A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.

  Greg Graffin

  Powerful, Moving, Fossils

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• I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups - and now I have moved to Cambridge, MA - which, in many respects, is like Palo Alto but a bit snarkier.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Yoga, Years, Two

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