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Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.

Mark Helprin

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WikiLeaks exposed corruption, war crimes, torture and cover-ups. It showed that we were lied to about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; that the U.S. military had deliberately hidden information about systematic torture and civilian casualties, which were much higher than reported.

Jemima Khan

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No one suggested Lehman deserved to be saved. But the argument has been made that the crisis might have been less severe if it had been saved, because Lehman's failure created remarkable uncertainty in the market as investors became confused about the role of the government and whether it was picking winners and losers.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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I think most actors like to be liked.

Anjelica Huston

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Pink is my go-to color, which is why I have had my hair pink for years, on and off.

Jeffree Star

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There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Michael Ignatieff

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I did a little bit of acting - some guest spots here and there. I got a job working as a therapist doing individual and group crisis intervention and family therapy. I did that for two years. I left to do 'Boston Legal.' So my psychology career has been interwoven into my acting career, and it's my safety net and fallback.

Meredith Eaton

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I am my own man now; I can think for myself, whereas when I was 20, 21, I always wanted to please others.

Sonny Bill Williams

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Coco Chanel hated me. I can understand why.

Mary Quant

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Don't ever play yourself.

DJ Khaled

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I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

Dree Hemingway

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Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

Art Bell

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To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille

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