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Beyond providing some level of scrutiny of Kenyan MPs, we built Mzalendo to demonstrate that there is only so much bemoaning you can do about your representation.

Ory Okolloh

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The interesting thing about 'True Blood' is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girls. I get stopped in the street and questioned by 70-year-old men whose wives and daughters are making Bloody Marys and throwing 'True Blood' parties.

Stephen Moyer

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Everyone talks about how, in your 30s, all of these growing pains transition into wisdom and you feel more self-assured and confident, but I think I had a bit of a jump-start on that at 27.

Solange Knowles

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I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

Torii Hunter

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I always considered trying to make a living playing music. But it was always really clear to me, at the various stages in my life, that it really wasn't a possibility unless some phenomenal thing happened.

Tracy Chapman

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I enjoy playing football, and that's about it. I'm no-one special.

Toni Kroos

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The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

Mary Quant

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When my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1991, I asked him if he had any regrets, and he said no. I was a burnt-out litigation solicitor in my thirties, hating my life, and his cancer made me re-evaluate it all.

Michelle Paver

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Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

Louis C. K.

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My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.

Chris Kattan

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I think having a dog makes you more compassionate.

Cheyenne Jackson

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And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

Christo

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The Internet definitely could be a weapon of mass destruction - it's not going to come in a bomb, it's going to come as a cyberattack. It's pretty amazing to see what a small group of people can do if they really know how to control the universe.

Christian Slater

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