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		My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Joyner-Kersee 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tamron Hall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Hamel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Lagerfeld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. G. Ballard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kat Graham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edie Brickell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Stevens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kate Atkinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Cardinal Richelieu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I need this wild life, this freedom. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zane Grey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Hanson 
			 
			
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		The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Waldo Emerson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		One day I got an invite to help the Christina Noble Foundation, and by this stage, I'd already been talking about her for 10 years. I said 'yes' right away, and that was the first time I met her. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Deirdre O'Kane 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the door. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charles M. Schulz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Leadership of the Liberal Party is a great honour, of which I remain profoundly conscious. It is, moreover, the unique gift of the party room. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Howard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Camille Paglia 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kelly Lynch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Joyner-Kersee