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The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village girl, attended a Catholic girls' school in Ramallah, and my refugee husband spent the Second Intifada side by side with his Christian brothers from Bethlehem.

Maysoon Zayid

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One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.

Jim Yong Kim

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Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I liked the idea of doing the same thing, which is one reason I structured 'Goon Squad' as a record album, with an A side and a B side, that's built around the contrasting sounds of the individual numbers in it.

Jennifer Egan

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Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.

Andrea Martin

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My dad was a preacher.

Matthew Desmond

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I have been one of the guys who have been skeptical of global warming from the beginning. The jury is obviously still out on it. We see nothing but conflicting reports from across the globe. I'm not sure; I'm not a scientist.

Michael Grimm

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At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.

John Searles

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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Robertson Davies

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The difference between equity and equality is that equality is everyone get the same thing and equity is everyone get the things they deserve.

DeRay Mckesson

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The Musicians Hall of Fame is chosen by thousands of your peers. So it's the real thing.

Dick Dale

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I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

Drew Barrymore

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