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		Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gail Collins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Caitlin Moran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Malcolm Turnbull 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Adam Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You either make dust or eat dust. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				H. Jackson Brown, Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Francia Raisa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mangosuthu Buthelezi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vanessa Mae 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Larry Hogan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Larry Hogan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barbara Kruger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Talcott Parsons 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				L'Wren Scott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There's a joke that, if you can ride through Texas with somebody, which is 700 miles of just straight, flat freeway riding, then you can be friends with them forever. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Katee Sackhoff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				James Gray 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Danai Gurira 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Virginia Woolf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Golf is a working man's sport in Scotland. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Brian Binnie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gail Collins