"Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility."

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Source : "Ellen Page Joins HRCF's Time to Thrive Conference". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 14, 2014.

Ellen Page

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“A good song is a good song whatever your age.”
“There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.”
“My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.”
“The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?”

Source : "Chen Guangcheng says he fears reprisals against his family" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.
“The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.”
“Marathoning is a metaphor for life, so there are a lot of parallels you can draw. I tell people to follow your dream, follow your heart, follow your passion, run your own race and believe in yourself. I think anybody who wants to succeed has to have passion. My love for this sport, you can't instill it in someone else.”
“The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. Itâ€™s called Denial.”

Source : Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf
“The audacity to love. Do you know what a gift that is?”

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