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The most obvious thing I do is I don't wear a burqa, and I'm definitely not oppressed. Plus, I'm quite obviously an independent thinker, which means as soon as I walk on stage, I dispel a lot of those stereotypes.

Maysoon Zayid

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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

John Berger

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I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A lot more people are saying Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport.

Jeremy Hunt

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If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

Steven Wright

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I like to do things that are shocking or challenging for the sake of comedy.

Skylar Astin

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The media had me convicted of doing something wrong before I had even done anything at all, before I had talked to anyone, before I get out of bed. I'm always the bad person.

Tonya Harding

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I had a very poor image of myself because I believed too much of the people around me when I was very young.

Rita Moreno

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We've continued to expand the overall footprint of Ulta Beauty both physically and digitally in so many ways.

Mary Dillon

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By New Year's Eve, we're so done going out we usually just light a fire, play one last card game, and watch the ball drop in our jammies.

Mary Page Keller

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It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.

Clare Balding

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Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

Brad Gilbert

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Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

Bryan Callen

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I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

Suzanne Farrell

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