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		The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jim Ramstad 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Orson Scott Card 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rabindranath Tagore 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Donaldson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abigail Breslin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Bush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mae Jemison 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Balthasar Klossowski de Rola 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Action Bronson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Octavia Spencer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. D. Souther 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Bachman 
			 
			
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		Most people don't remember the guy from 'The Real World.' They know the guy who is a professional, a father, and a friend that gives great advice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karamo Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Janet Yellen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I quickly came to realize that in the Middle East, God is God, and in the West, the sponsor is God - or, as I like to say, Tide detergent is God. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maz Jobrani 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Teddy Sears 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yehuda Amichai 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jim Ramstad