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		I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
	
	  Aaron Stanford Aaron Stanford
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		I grew up in a very large, poor family.
	
	  Florence Henderson Florence Henderson
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		I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
	
	  Rachel Johnson Rachel Johnson
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		Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
	
	  Vikram Seth Vikram Seth
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		Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
	
	  Mara Liasson Mara Liasson
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		When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
	
	  Warren Littlefield Warren Littlefield
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		One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
	
	  A. B. Yehoshua A. B. Yehoshua
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		You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
	
	  Ralph Steadman Ralph Steadman
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		There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
	
	  Saint Bernard Saint Bernard
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		We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
	
	  Larry Niven Larry Niven
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		'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
	
	  Adam Davidson Adam Davidson
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		When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
	
	  Zara Larsson Zara Larsson
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		Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
	
	  Feist Feist
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		Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
	
	  Dalai Lama Dalai Lama
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		Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
	
	  P. J. O'Rourke P. J. O'Rourke
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		Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
	
	  Abu Bakar Bashir Abu Bakar Bashir
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		I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
	
	  R. Kelly R. Kelly
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		I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.
	
	  Tara Lipinski Tara Lipinski
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		I need to know how many records I've sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we're gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something.
	
	  Frank Ocean Frank Ocean
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		Rules are made to be broken, so there won't be any rules.
	
	  Billy Herman Billy Herman
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		I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll all be lovely and nice - but then they'll be one saying, 'I hate you; I'm unsubscribing' and that's the one that sticks out and stays on your mind all day.
	
	  Zoe Sugg Zoe Sugg
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		I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.
	
	  Charles Bass Charles Bass
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		I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
	
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