I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Recitation: by Male by Female
When a parent says about a book, 'That's not my child's world,' I remind them of the future. Social fluency will be the new currency of success. Not experiencing diversity challenges our kids' future in the global work force. It handicaps them from making America and the world more livable and just.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
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It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.
Meg White
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Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.
Michael Eric Dyson
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That's my sense of how crime works: that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating.
John Sandford
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I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns.
John Tesh
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If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
John Ralston Saul
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Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
Aminatta Forna
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I have no first-strike capability. I never choose to go into battle first. But I won't back down.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
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I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up.
Martina Hingis
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Cops can deprive people of their freedom. They are sworn to serve and protect. They work for us and they belong to, basically, a service industry, laboring in conditions that are sometimes threatening, often dangerous yet interesting.
Mike Barnicle
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I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.
Michelle Forbes
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