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		The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
	
	  Kate McKinnon Kate McKinnon
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		I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
	
	  Mac DeMarco Mac DeMarco
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		London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
	
	  Lapo Elkann Lapo Elkann
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		Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
	
	  J. Maarten Troost J. Maarten Troost
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		We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
	
	  Said Sayrafiezadeh Said Sayrafiezadeh
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		I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
	
	  Damon Lindelof Damon Lindelof
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		My dad took me to see James Brown live, and that's so cool, cause I don't think many people my age can say they saw James Brown. I'm pretty proud of that. That's the thing about me that no one really knows. I had to have been 6 or 7, but I remember it vividly.
	
	  Maika Monroe Maika Monroe
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		Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
	
	  Adam McKay Adam McKay
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		If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'
	
	  Adam McKay Adam McKay
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		What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.
	
	  Lakhdar Brahimi Lakhdar Brahimi
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		History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
	
	  Barry Ritholtz Barry Ritholtz
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		People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.
	
	  Malin Akerman Malin Akerman
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		It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
	
	  Peter Bichsel Peter Bichsel
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		I always wanted to make sure that I was honest to myself and that people wanted to hear an opinion that was authentic... I wanted Man Repeller to be a voice for women who felt like they didn't have a voice or for women who didn't know how to express their voice.
	
	  Leandra Medine Leandra Medine
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		Some people are more affected by, I hate to use the word "success," but I don't know what else to say, but some people are more affected by that than others.
	
	  Aaron Bruno Aaron Bruno
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		Listening to the neoconservatives, Bush invaded Iraq, united the Arab world against us, isolated us from Europe, and fulfilled to the letter bin Laden's prophecy as to what we were about.
	
	  Pat Buchanan Pat Buchanan
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		It's our job as Liberal Democrats to be an effective opposition - and an increasingly tough one as well.
	
	  Charles Kennedy Charles Kennedy
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		The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
	
	  Sarah Dessen Sarah Dessen