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		It's remarkable she Venus Williams plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career I really did admire. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				James Blake 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's remarkable she Venus Williams plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Serena Williams