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Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.

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• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Care

• Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Healthy

• There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Confidence
  • Line
  • Arrogance

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
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  • Six
  • Pilot

• Men are every bit as gendered as women.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Bit

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
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  • Living

• In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Truth
  • History
  • Story

• It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Film
  • Picture

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.

  

  Adam Draper
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  • Nothing
  • Will

• I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.

  

  Nathan Kress
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• That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.

  

  Edith Widder
  • People
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  • Problem

• I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Air

• In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

  

  Adam Jones
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• I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Important
  • Kids
  • History

• Years ago, when my attempts at a writing career came to a complete stand-still, I applied to the Los Angeles Police Department. This might seem odd for a liberal woman who once went to UC Santa Cruz, but I've always had a powerful fascination with crime and serious interest in finding different ways to contend with it.

  

  Lisa Lutz
  • Different
  • Writing
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• In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Environment

• In late 2001, I contributed a short story called 'Castaways' to an anthology called 'In Laymon's Terms,' which was a tribute to Richard Laymon, who had passed away earlier that year.

  

  Brian Keene

• Dorothy Day said - and I'm sure that Kathy Kelly would say the same thing - 'I'm working toward a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.' Now, think about that: a world in which it will be easier for people to behave decently.

  

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