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		Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Arundhati Roy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Washed Out 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natalie Portman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dallas Roberts 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabrielle Roy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Bradley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Saint Ignatius 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. J. Abrams 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that... or 'Come on, you got to be tough... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marv Levy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oscar Wilde 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I know every politician spins the truth a little. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zach Braff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Arundhati Roy