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“If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.”
Source : Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 25, 2011. 
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“The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to ...”
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“Art respects the masses, by standing up to them for what they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”
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“It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't,”
Source : Interview with Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, February 21, 2007.
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“I admire people who are creative.”
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“All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.”
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“But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world.”
Source : "Reporting Poverty". Interview with Emily Brennan, www.guernicamag.com. September 4, 2012.
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“I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I've got 11 brothers and sisters.”
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“If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.”
