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As a very small girl, I listened to Charlie Parker and loved him and Max Roach and people like that.
Aretha Franklin
People
Girl
Charlie
Charlie Parker
Small
Parker
Roach
Like
Him
Very
Max
Listened
Loved
I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.
Kirk Acevedo
Work
Hard Work
Time
Sports
Three
Gave
Wild
Else
Ran
Run
Athlete
Gym
More
Wired
Roach
Hours
Him
Box
Boxing
Equation
Understand
Am
Than
Flag
Hanging
Anything
Flat
Anything Else
Rican
Much
Hard
Payoff
Marathon
Card
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Last
My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.
Chuck Schumer
Love
Family
Father
Smell
Our
Ran
Abe
Small
He
Roach
Always
Spray
Years
May
Explain
Businessman
Company
Why
Associated
I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.
Jamie Cullum
Great
Musicians
Creativity
Reading
Believe
Think
Out
Plus
General
Davis
Roach
Dizzy
Hours
Also
Been
Max
Worked
Miles
Miles Davis
Cooks
Why
Biographies
Monk
I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.
Jay London
Training
Military
Roach
Off
Convinced
Cockroaches
Military Training
Bomb
Set
Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.
Daniel Breaker
Life
Key
Remember
Constant
Some
Throughout
Stellar
Songs
Roach
Well
Stevie
Wonder
Max
Childhood
Dad
Shuffle
Playing
Albums
A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.
Michael O'Donoghue
Treat
Chasing
Would
Would-Be
Roach
Hissing
Really
Jerry
Neat
Lewis
If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.
Carl Olson
You
Control
Must
Roach
Get
Use
Rid
Mechanical