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		Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				V. R. Krishna Iyer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rafael Nadal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Becki Newton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jackie Earle Haley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eddie Huang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Cara Delevingne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ed Wood 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karl Rove 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Rachel Roy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abba Eban 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oliver Tambo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom people know they can rely on to do a good job... whether they like me as a person or not! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lynda Carter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Many years, I would publish four books - an anthology, a book of criticism, a new book of poems, a book of essays. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Donald Hall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ursula K. Le Guin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Carl Hart 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James Wolcott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				V. R. Krishna Iyer