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When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

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• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
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• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
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• I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

  

  Vanna Bonta
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• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

  

  Samantha Power
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• I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
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• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
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• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
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• Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent.

  

  Major Taylor
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• He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

  

  Edmund Spenser
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• I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
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• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  

  Camille Claudel
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• I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
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• Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

  

  Jim Fowler
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• The Steinway piano is the most harmonious implement for musical intention. It completes what is beautiful and artistic.

  

  Yefim Bronfman
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• Once we start deliberately messing with the climate systems, we could inadvertently shift rainfall patterns (climate models have shown that rainfall in the Amazon might be particularly vulnerable), causing collapse of ecosystems, drought, famine, and more.

  

  Jeff Goodell

• Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.

  

  Bill James
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• What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
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• When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

  

  John C. Hawkes
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