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You have a responsibility to make inclusion a daily thought, so we can get rid of the word 'inclusion.'
Theodore Melfi
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NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.
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We don't have parades for mathematicians, we have parades for astronauts. You don't think about all the thousands of people who worked on that capsule and crunched the numbers and were integral in getting that into space.
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To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, in what I now know was poverty. Sharing a tiny bedroom with my two brothers, eating government cheese and passing down sneakers until they were unpassable... I simply thought the whole world lived as such, especially in pre-gentrified Williamsburg of the 1980s.
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The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful.
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Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.
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Change is incremental. Change is small.
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I can't stand toe-to-toe with Bill Murray. It's very hard, because just looking at Bill - he's 6'3", and he just stares at you, and you have no idea what's going on inside that mind of his.
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People live in the middle. I think everyone does. Good is on one side, bad is on the other side, and we live in the middle.
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For me, as a feminist, as somebody who wants to lift up women - because I do; I come from a single mom who raised three boys on her own - I feel like, you close the door on women, you close the door on humanity.
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You know what the truth is? You don't find Bill Murray. Bill Murray finds you.
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