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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
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Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to me.
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During war, the laws are silent.
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
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The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.
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Ain't no problem with me and Kevin Gates; everybody just trippin'.
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I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.
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What's frustrating to me is when, on a low-budget movie, people don't take chances. A big-budget movie, that script's your bible; nobody's going to risk going off the page. But when you're doing a very low-budget film, why not take some chances, intellectually, artistically?
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Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
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It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.
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I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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It must be so nice to be a white male.
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I've heard that almost all the people crowding around the big art openings barely look at the work on display and are just there to hobnob. Nothing wrong with that, except that none of them ever come back to look at the art - but they will tell everyone, and actually believe, that they have seen the exhibition.
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I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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When you work on these films for so long and so intensely, when you get to the end of them, suddenly there's nothing to do.
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In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
