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		Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naomi Shihab Nye 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				D. A. Pennebaker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Federica Mogherini 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ace Frehley 
			 
			
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		When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cameron Russell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rand Paul 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Octavio Paz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When you're onstage, it's a communication technique when you make people laugh. You're communicating. You're communicating with other human beings and when they laugh you know that you're connecting. Laughing is an honest reaction and it's something that I can trust, and I love that feeling of knowing that I connected. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brian Regan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was in seventh grade, I was a scrawny boy with no muscles, so I went out for wrestling. My intention was to develop secret wrestling skills so that if I were jumped by a bully, I'd shout, 'Ha!' and he'd be on the ground in a headlock. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. Bruce Cameron 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hank Haney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James P. Gorman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Oh!” said she, “I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say ‘Yes,’ that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.” “Indeed I do not dare. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jane Austen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naomi Shihab Nye