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In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.

Donovan

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When I was 11, I saw this ad for dish soap powder that said, 'Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans.' I was so angry. I couldn't understand why it didn't say men as well.

Meghan Markle

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As much as I very much want audiences to watch FX's carefully curated and highly contextualized television shows, I'm now glad when anyone takes the time to watch even our competition's television series, as long as it demands their sustained attention and challenges their knee-jerk perceptions.

John Landgraf

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I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need - protection and love.

Angelina Jolie

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Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education and removed legal barriers that prevent women from achieving their potential are now seeing the benefits.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

Rodney King

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A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

Jon Meacham

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I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!

Donny Osmond

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I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.

Dean Cain

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You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.

Debbie Ford

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If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.'

Alice Dreger

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CEOs must go beyond working with policy-makers on new regulatory frameworks. They must also commit to the principle that success cannot be measured by profitability and growth alone.

Pierre Nanterme

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