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I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

Being around all the great names of the game at a young age because they were my heroes; the fact this meant so much to Canada. It was just an incredible thing to be a part of.

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

I just like to walk around New York, just put my iPod on and walk around.

Everyone always talks about the speed of New York, and I still walk slow around New York, and everyone is walking faster than me all the time, and I notice it every time we go out.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.

I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.

We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.

So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.