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Oftentimes when people make movies about the '80s, they go back and look at '80s films, but those look nothing like the '80s. It's some watered-down version of reality.

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• I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

  

  Owen Paterson
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• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  

  Warren Bennis
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• I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.

  

  Ram Charan
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• I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
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• One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
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• When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

  

  Patrick Chan
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• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

  Ted Deutch
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  • Retirement
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• My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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  • Islam

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
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• I've been reading titles from IDW for probably as long as they've been in existence. 'Ninja Turtles' is one of my all-time favorite properties ever. I also love, love, love 'Locke & Key.' I also love some of the things they do with pre-existing properties like 'Transformers' and 'Ghostbusters.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Time
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• Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

  

  Olivia Colman
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• A school morning is usually a pretty hectic time in any household.

  

  Tamra Davis
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• My concentration span is truly that of a gnat. Some people have this ladder, and that's all there is - the ladder. I have the ladder, too, but there's a building around it with scaffolding, and lots of windows for me to peek into. Then suddenly I'll remember, 'Oh, there's the ladder. I should be concentrating on that.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
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• What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
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• I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• After my accident, the stuff that mattered was stuff that made a difference in the world, not the stuff that made money.

  

  Kimbal Musk
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• Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

  

  Mia Hamm
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• There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast.

  

  Pras Michel Fugees
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• It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
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• Oftentimes when people make movies about the '80s, they go back and look at '80s films, but those look nothing like the '80s. It's some watered-down version of reality.

  

  Brett Morgen
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