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		There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Michael Stipe 
			 
			
				R.E.M.  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fannie Lou Hamer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Taylor Negron 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Samuel Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Xavier Dolan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laura Innes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Patrick Lencioni 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ian Fleming 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sally Field 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zach Galifianakis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				P. Chidambaram 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Olivier Megaton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel like, maybe in the '90s, 'Rookie' would have been shamed for trying to reach a lot of people or trying to be 'mainstream', but I'm so pleased that our readers are happy to see me promoting the 'Rookie' yearbook on TV or whatever. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tavi Gevinson