For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
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And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A,… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
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Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
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I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
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Nobody thinks quotas are a great win for women - the win would be removing the discrimination and inequality that creates under-representation… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
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I'm very wary of heroes. I try not to make them in the first place, but there was a phrase Idris Elba… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
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We can avoid liberal candidates by filtering them out at the local level, nipping their ascension to power in the proverbial bud… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
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The FTC is entirely pro-innovation, and a lot of our work is about ensuring that companies are able to compete in a… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
When people walk away from you, let them go. You shouldnt have to talk them into staying with you, loving you, calling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“They were accused in the first place of having committed individually murders and other offences against the camp inmates, and in the… — Javier Gómez Pérez Copy Share Image
I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
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