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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

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I think there's something to the millennial sentiment of being, like, 'I'm great.' But I think there's also something really amazing and powerful about being, like, 'Oh, hey, I'm awesome.' It's a fine line. But I think it's possible to be both, to not be the most annoying person in the world, to still be very intriguing and fun to watch.

Jessica Williams

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I knew it would be painful to write a memoir.

Jesmyn Ward

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The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

Jessica Savitch

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There's no such thing as altruism.

Andrew Tobias

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I would rather die early than enter Malacanang.

Rodrigo Duterte

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In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.'

Robert Zubrin

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Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.'

Ruth Reichl

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The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

Dorothy Malone

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One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

Chris Frantz

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I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.

Brian Tyree Henry

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India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

Pranab Mukherjee

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If it turns out that there are emotions and values that are more numerous and more vibrant than indifference and hatred, things are going to be okay. That depends on us.

Timothy D. Snyder

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