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		If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Deborah Meier 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tamron Hall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				W. Edwards Deming 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Queen Latifah 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vanity 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am from Karnal, India. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kalpana Chawla 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barry Silbert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gail Collins 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dana Perino 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kate Moss 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Prelutsky 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tariq Ali