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		In a lot of the really impoverished areas of Johannesburg you see these packets of cheesy puffs which are like 6 feet long and the width of a basketball, and they're transparent and they have like 10,000 cheesy puffs in them, and you can buy that for like 50 cents. It's kind of a weird treat that you'd see people having in the townships.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Neill Blomkamp 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naomi Campbell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Beckham 
			 
			
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		If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahatma Gandhi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. C. Chandor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		It's so funny: at 'SNL,' Bill Hader always kind of treated me like his little sister and would kind of, like, lovingly bully me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vanessa Bayer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Ant 
			 
			
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		When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edgardo Osorio 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Qandeel Baloch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A.J. Styles 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Most of the young people I know are working so hard, 60 or 70 hours a week. They have no time for recreation or love affairs; it's just work and struggle. I want them to endure, and find that strength and be able to continue. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I'm good friends with Matt Morrison. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alexis de Tocqueville 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was not a popular girl, so being able to create punk who didn't have to be beautiful in the mainstream way helped me to get in touch with sexuality and become comfortable with the idea that I didn't have to look like Farrah Fawcett to feel attractive, to feel sexual power. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Beau Bridges 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In a lot of the really impoverished areas of Johannesburg you see these packets of cheesy puffs which are like 6 feet long and the width of a basketball, and they're transparent and they have like 10,000 cheesy puffs in them, and you can buy that for like 50 cents. It's kind of a weird treat that you'd see people having in the townships. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Neill Blomkamp