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I saw this Facebook video of a boy, probably around seven, wearing a dress he had fashioned from a blanket, sashaying through his house while his mother applauded and cheered him on. He was so proud. It was such a beautiful thing but bittersweet because I knew his spirit would change soon: that he'd become self-aware and ashamed at some level.

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

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Not being given everything encourages you to create... That was one of the first steps for me learning to invent things.

Ann Makosinski

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Naked is the best disguise.

Jeanette Winterson

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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Anais Nin

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You know what we say in the Hamptons: If you have to come out on a Friday afternoon or go back on a Sunday night, you're not rich enough to have a house there. So, you have to be able to come and go when you feel like it in the Hamptons.

Steven Gaines

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I was a little late in the game for Twitter and Facebook and everything because I thought, 'Oh, I don't know. I just don't have time.'

Stacy Keibler

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There are so many things we have not seen in 'Spider-Man' yet... I want to use bad guys never seen in movies. The first films were so traditional and so scrupulously followed the character's classic plot... So there's a lot of stuff left in stock. 'The Clone Saga,' for example.

Tom Holland

CharacterBadWantMoviesNever

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

Tom Peters

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Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.

Tom Coburn

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In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

Robert Wyatt

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Yeah, I love Los Angeles.

Lorne Michaels

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I had gone to a Catholic prep school where everyone was rich and having kids by the time they were 30.

Jay Duplass

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