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		Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a ninety-foot redwood.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						 Erma Bombeck
					
				
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		The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.
	
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				Jane's Addiction Flea
			
			
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		At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
	
	  Danica McKellar Danica McKellar
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		And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.
	
	  Patrick Dempsey Patrick Dempsey
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		I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
	
	  Harbhajan Singh Harbhajan Singh
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		When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
	
	  Eden Hazard Eden Hazard
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		Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
	
	  Karl Liebknecht Karl Liebknecht
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		Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
	
	  Aaron Johnson Aaron Johnson
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		We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
	
	  Zac Brown Band Zac Brown Band
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		Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
	
	  Randi Weingarten Randi Weingarten
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		I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
	
	  Mac Davis Mac Davis
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		When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
	
	  Dakota Johnson Dakota Johnson
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		I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
	
	  Rachel Tucker Rachel Tucker
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		There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
	
	  H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft
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		I've done it all.
	
	  Barbara Bush Barbara Bush
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		By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.
	
	  Jack Youngblood Jack Youngblood
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		The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
	
	  Carl Clinton Van Doren Carl Clinton Van Doren
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		To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
	
	  Adam Grant Adam Grant
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		In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.
	
	  Wang Jianlin Wang Jianlin