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		We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barbara Walters 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Robinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				D. B. Weiss 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I want to work with different people, and I would like to work in different places. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taron Egerton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Kushner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Stoppard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wallace Shawn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bassem Youssef 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Pink 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Quayle 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pamela Adlon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed O'Neill 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T. J. Miller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If history judges society for how it treats those in need, so markets judge economies by the incentives they provide for private investment, the infrastructure that supports growth, and the burdens placed on job creation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victor Ponta 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zach Galligan