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		There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Deborah Tannen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yogi Berra 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fede Alvarez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rachel Bloom 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Warren Beatty 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Safra A. Catz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carl von Clausewitz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oliver Tambo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laini Taylor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Mansbach 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Victoria Pendleton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ted Deutch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Victoria Principal