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		It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						 M. Russell Ballard
					
				
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		I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
	
	  Kacey Musgraves Kacey Musgraves
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		As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
	
	  Omari Hardwick Omari Hardwick
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		I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
	
	  Forest Whitaker Forest Whitaker
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		Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
	
	  Said Sayrafiezadeh Said Sayrafiezadeh
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		I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
	
	  Hailee Steinfeld Hailee Steinfeld
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		If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
	
	  Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer
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		I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
	
	  Wendy Cope Wendy Cope
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		I don't like controversy.
	
	  Sammy Sosa Sammy Sosa
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		The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
	
	  Victoria Abril Victoria Abril
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		Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
	
	  Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates
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		In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
	
	  Jack Welch Jack Welch
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		A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
	
	  H. L. Mencken H. L. Mencken
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		You can’t magically change your gender. You can’t magically change your sex. You can’t magically change your age.
	
	  Ben Shapiro Ben Shapiro
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		A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.
	
	  T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot
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		That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel.
	
	  F. Thomson Leighton F. Thomson Leighton
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		I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
	
	  Karen Allen Karen Allen
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		Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help.
	
	  Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi
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		It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
	
	  M. Russell Ballard M. Russell Ballard