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		It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carson McCullers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mahatma Gandhi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Levitan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Olivia Wilde 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Russians don't complain, usually. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Frazier 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edd Roush 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		If they have entered into the spirit if these rules, and if the rules have made sufficient impression on them to become rooted and established in their minds, they will feel how much difference there is between what is said here and what a few logicians may perhaps have written by chance approximating to it in a few passages of their works. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Blaise Pascal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gao Xingjian 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of people say, 'Wow, you're a single father of twin boys, that's crazy!' Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn't change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, 'Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,' it can't get better. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ricky Martin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Tobias Jesso Jr. 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carson McCullers