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I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.
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Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can.
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The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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The Internet is an amazing development.
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Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
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Revolutionaries are not infallible.
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When I'm in show mode, I can't even think about putting on makeup; I just have to be centered.
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Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?
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We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching men working as teams. We're watching all working as teams. We're proud of men and women getting medals. That's how the Navy should be working.
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Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
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Donald Trump, you already know. We can't have that guy in office.
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I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
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I'm not an ordinary prisoner.
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Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.
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It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.
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It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.
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I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.
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I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.
