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Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

Penn Jillette

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If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

Jim Talent

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I remember tap-dancing and singing in front of the TV when I was a kid, telling my dad to stop watching Ed Sullivan or Milton Berle and watch me.

Andie MacDowell

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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

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The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

John Sentamu

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I've always been like the No. 1 Boston hip-hop fan.

Statik Selektah

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I was a big 'Charlie Brown' fan as a kid.

Trey Parker

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Twitter could save a lot of money by writing its executives' names on their doors with pencil instead of fancy placards. Like an episode of 'Suits,' Twitter execs come, go, change jobs and disappear under black clouds every few minutes. Office administration costs must be astronomical!

Milo Yiannopoulos

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All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Luc de Clapiers

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I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went on for years.I'd switch on the radio, and I'd hear, 'Two female authors are here to discuss chick lit - is it dead?' and I'd think, 'Argh, no, not again. Are we seriously still having this conversation?'

Lisa Jewell

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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

Brooke Shields

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At the beginning of 1955 only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs.

Annette Funicello

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