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I was told I wouldn't live past 30 or have children.

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• There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Support
  • Gun
  • Safety

• When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Dance

• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • France
  • YouTube
  • Naive

• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Upside Down

• I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Spontaneous

• I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Peace

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Help
  • Gift

• I wake up some mornings hating me too.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Wake Up

• We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Morning
  • Never
  • Before

• Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Technology

• I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Down
  • Back

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring unskilled labor.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Building
  • Prove
  • Labor

• This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Kind
  • Government
  • Husband

• When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Golf
  • Try
  • Pressure

• I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Me

• I prize thy gentle heart, Free from ambition, falsehood, or art, And thy good mind, Daily refined, By pure desire To fan the heaven-seeking fire.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Not everyone wants to see children's films, comics, and supermen.

  

  John Hurt
  • Children

• I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Home

• I always go into a fight thinking the decision is going to be fair, and I relish these fights where the atmosphere is so fantastic.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Decision

• I was running around all the time, talking out of turn, a lot of energy, and obsessed with movies. There's nothing I loved more than going to the movies.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Running

• I was told I wouldn't live past 30 or have children.

  

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