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		My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
	
	  Nathan Myhrvold Nathan Myhrvold
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		The Coast Guard only has about a couple dozen helicopters and they have rescued about 700 people already. Hopefully these boats can be put into place quickly. There's not much time to do these kinds of things if you want to save lives.
	
	  John Metcalf John Metcalf
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		My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.
	
	  Karen Joy Fowler Karen Joy Fowler
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		Mum left school at 15, and after a few years of modelling and dating jazz musicians, was married by 21 to my father, Mike Taylor, a journalist on the 'Daily Mirror.' They had my brother and me pretty quickly and had split up by the time I was two. I don't really have any memories of them as a couple.
	
	  Natascha McElhone Natascha McElhone
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		When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.
	
	  Beverly Johnson Beverly Johnson
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		My first couple of years in the league left me very unstable. I had some times where I played well, and I had some times were I really did not get the opportunity. After Rick Pitino gave up on me my first year, people were like, 'He can't play.' So I had to get over that hump.
	
	  Chauncey Billups Chauncey Billups
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		And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.
	
	  Jean M. Auel Jean M. Auel
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		I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.
	
	  Calista Flockhart Calista Flockhart
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		When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'
	
	  Cameron Russell Cameron Russell
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		I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.
	
	  Grace Martine Tandon Grace Martine Tandon
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		There's a couple of things you shouldn't do to other humans and you shouldn't say to other humans that Khal Drogo does.
	
	  Jason Momoa Jason Momoa
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		Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.
	
	  Donald O'Connor Donald O'Connor
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		We were very close many times. I don't think there were a couple of times that a hair could have even be between the wheel and my wheel. I don't think we ever touched. I tell you, I respect him a lot after this race. Not that I didn't respect him before, but he definitely drove like a champion.
	
	  Helio Castroneves Helio Castroneves
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		I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
	
	  Aaron Paul Aaron Paul
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		I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
	
	  Callie Khouri Callie Khouri
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		If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
	
	  Gabrielle Reece Gabrielle Reece
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		It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
	
	  Eddie Campbell Eddie Campbell
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		I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
	
	  L'Wren Scott L'Wren Scott