I am honored to be receiving the Point Courage Award.
Wilson Cruz
Recitation: by Male by Female
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
Joan Chen
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Growing up, I learnt to think, 'Let's make it a big night tonight, as you never know what's going to happen next.' So now I have enough, I take too much; when I get the chance to have a fine dinner, I will. And it's had an effect on my health.
John Burnside
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As a screenwriter and a half-Jew, I tend to look at the glass half-empty.
John Francis Daley
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In total, I was diagnosed with depression by eight psychotherapists and psychiatrists over a period of thirteen years. Diagnosed wrong. Absolutely wrong. My accurate diagnosis was manic depression, or what we call bipolar disorder today.
Andy Behrman
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The only person you resent is yourself.
John Hewson
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On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women, like demanding equal pay for equal work, pushing to raise our minimum wage, and promoting the idea of paid family leave.
Ann Callis
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I have learned, as I get older, just to be who I am.
Stacy Brown-Philpot
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American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested in exploring those 'geographies' of secrecy from many different angles: political, legal, economic, spatial, etc., because I am fundamentally just interested in how the world works and how societies work.
Trevor Paglen
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Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.
Ron Paul
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During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
Rudolph A. Marcus
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There was no freer soul in the world than me at age nine.
Miriam Toews
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I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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