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So many musicians are coming to the forefront and are becoming household names.

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.

I think if there was no violence in our world, there would be no violence in film. Violence is a part of human nature, and obviously it's a troublesome part of human nature. You always have...

I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.

There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?

I always like to give and present my actors in a different look.

For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science, and medicine.

Reality shows are giving a fair chance to singers hailing from far-flung areas like Jharkhand and Jhansi, which otherwise wouldn't have been recognised at all.

Just because you fall in love with someone doesn't necessarily mean they're a good partner for you to be with over the long term.

It is difficult to constantly make courageous choices.

I don't know how people say exercising is addictive.

The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher...

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

I have no clue when I'm getting married. I just go with the flow.

Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.

Well, when you grow up in a family situation like in England, you're whole - we call it pub culture, and it is, really. You grow up, you literally come home from work, everyone goes to the pub at...

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

I'll rock with anyone - vintage rappers, young dudes, anyone.

When you are young you can be a bit nonchalant - it's cool to be depressed, and maybe a bit dark.

When girls scream my name and start crying, I blush like crazy.

It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught.

I used Malta as a location to shoot a lot of my action sequences, and that's because we don't have the kind of setup that Malta Film Studios does. They have a world-class facility.

I wrote 'Truth Is' with Julia Michaels during our first time working together. The song is about emotions we often think of but are afraid to voice - the feelings we try to convince ourselves we don't...

I love celebrating music in different and unique ways.

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they...

No matter the natural disaster I've covered, whether it's a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.

Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral...

In the South, dove hunts do not draw quietly to a close. Sometimes, at the simplest end, a grill and cooler are hauled to the edge of the field, and the doves' breasts are grilled - usually swaddled...

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war...

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.