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People ask what my influences are, and for me, it's not always obvious. One of my biggest inspirations was Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders. That's based on how she just does whatever she wants to do, and I love her attitude about everything. It bleeds over into my way of thinking and comedy.

Tig Notaro

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LoveAttitudePeopleMeThinking

The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans.

John Fleming

PoliticsPeopleLawAmericanBad

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Jeanette Winterson

PastLanguageYouCreateNeedWould

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

Robert D. Hare

PeopleThinkCriminalMajorityFact

We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer.

Mike Conaway

LiveWorldSometimesLittleTake

My children know I would never call anyone to give my son or daughter a break.

Mithun Chakraborty

SonDaughterChildrenKnowNever

Science fiction I've always been a fan of.

Jason Statham

ScienceScience FictionAlwaysBeen

When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see hail the size of purie marbles.

Diane Ackerman

RainStormSometimesSizeSeeTown

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

Clayton M. Christensen

ServiceFinanceBalanceAmericanPut

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!

Brian Eno

MusicHateTraditionRockBear

We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

PeopleCountryWantKindBuildWill

When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.

Willie Nelson

MindCoolThinkSomeoneWayMatter

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

TeacherEasyNeverYearsHighGet

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