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I grew up listening and looking up at these people and laughing at Carol Burnett and singing James Taylor songs. And same… — MC Lyte Copy Share Image
Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in… — Catherine Bell Copy Share Image
Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
In my life, I don't wear makeup, I don't care about any of the trappings of the "feminine," or how I look… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
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Unfortunately, many talented people in Hollywood find their values and politics do not reflect the content they create, and many movie themes… — Allen Covert Copy Share Image
Was she terrifyingly beautiful? Was she so ignorant she didn't deserve the truth? Was she also a liar and thus it was… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Here, too, a brand-new day is beginning. It could be a day like all the others, or it could be a day… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I'm the same on stage as I am off stage. A lot of people who I admire - Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
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The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may… — Ehud Olmert Copy Share Image
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In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could… — Neil Burger Copy Share Image
Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
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People tell me I'm in a genre kind of movie, but it never crossed my mind that The Matrix was genre. To… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
A lot of times we associate Greenpeace and climate change and shrinking polar caps with heavy-handed, weighty material. It's somber stuff. But… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Remember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs… — Kevin Leman Copy Share Image
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