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If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president.

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• Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.

  

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• A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.

  

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• I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

  

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• If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.

  

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• Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

  

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• I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

  

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• People never expected a boy from a small town to have a life like I did.

  

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• I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.

  

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• Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

  

  Kate Fox
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• I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
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• The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.

  

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• I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

  

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• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

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• Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

  

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• I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

  

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• Piano is like drudgery.

  

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• General Advice: Never break a promise, but re-negotiate them if need be. If you haven’t got time to do it right, you don’t have time to do it wrong. Recognize that most things are pass/fail. Feedback loops: ask in confidence.

  

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• I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

  

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• The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.

  

  Odilon Redon
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• If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president.

  

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