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		Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Erica Jong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ibrahim Babangida 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Begley, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalia Kills 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Flip Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ira Glass 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahesh Babu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wanda Sykes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Can you imagine what will happen to the global economy if Iran comes out with a nuclear weapon? The whole area will enter a nuclear race - Saudi Arabia, Turkey. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naftali Bennett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hal Sparks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Duffy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Amiel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Hazlitt