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My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.

Kelis

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I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for one year after obtaining my degree in 1950. It seemed desirable more for personal and social reasons than academic ones to accept the higher-paying instructorship at M.I.T.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Simon Newcomb

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Shangela and I are both the type of queens who will taffy-pull 15 minutes of fame into something solid.

Trixie Mattel

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I had sort of given up on conventional journalism. I found it far too restrictive.

Molly Ivins

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I don't like false modesty.

Dominic Holland

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I didn't grow up like Quentin Tarantino, watching esoteric art films at the video store. I'd go to the multiplex and see big, mainstream movies, and I'd go, 'I want to make one of those one day.'

Doug Liman

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You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants.

Bobby Rahal

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I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Bruno Tonioli

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I love food and I love living.

Ali Landry

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Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.

Suzanne Fields

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It doesn't matter what you're saying if you come from an honest place.

Seth Green

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It would be a huge loss to the wrestling industry and for those of us that have made our living in this industry to lose someone like Ric Flair.

Shane Douglas

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