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		When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ann Nocenti 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Beattie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry Sternlicht 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Saint Bernard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dale T. Mortensen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				E. W. Howe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yael Naim 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bastian Schweinsteiger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				D. B. Weiss 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Indira Gandhi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				T Bone Burnett 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Wendell Phillips 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				M. J. Rose 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		They are scared that the BBC or CNN may call them radicals, so they remain soft instead. The problem lies there, with the Muslim leaders, not the Muslim masses. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abu Bakar Bashir 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You've got to feel better and then things get better. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Esther Hicks 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Lublin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been dieting my whole life because I have a tremendous appetite. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kim Cattrall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Hazlitt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ann Nocenti