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I used to think that growing up in New York made me ready for everything - for everything. Before I really got a chance to travel, I thought that I was better prepared for the world because I was from New York.

El-P

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When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.

Joe Lando

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Communism counts its opportunities in terms of decades - not of weeks. Its means of aggression consist not only of nuclear weapons and missiles with enormous boosters, and not only of spies, agents and terrorists, but of great masses of men and women, deluded by a common ideology which inspires them with a false hope.

Robert Kennedy

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I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

Angela Davis

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I love representing Minnesota in the Senate.

Amy Klobuchar

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Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

Ronda Rousey

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As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

Roy Harper

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Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

Delta Goodrem

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To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

Brian Setzer

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Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

Alison Bechdel

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No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

Sydney Pollack

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I would type in things like, 'How to play beginner songs on guitar,' and one of the first I learnt was 'Hey, Soul Sister' by Train. I taught myself these chords I didn't know the name of and slowly started to get the hang. I was obsessed with it.

Shawn Mendes

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In 2001, I was an Air Force lieutenant colonel and A-10 fighter pilot stationed in Saudi Arabia, in charge of rescue operations for no-fly enforcement in Iraq and then in Afghanistan.

Martha McSally

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