Ice-T
American rapper and actor
The transition from streetlife to the legitimate world.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I invented optical levitation.
Hilary Brueck, Business Insider interview at Ashkin's home, 26 January 2019 source ↗
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Derek Sivers
Founder of CD Baby; author of Anything You Want
"How to Live" feels like such a masterpiece for me that if I did nothing else with my whole life, but write that one book, it still feels like it would have been a life well lived.
Now that I’m at this end of my career, I’m gobsmacked that I’ve managed to cling on for as long as I have.
A successful marriage, my third.
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