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“You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.”
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“You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.”
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“Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.”
Source : "Ricki Lake: From Size 24 to Skinny" by Roxanna Sherwood, abcnews.go.com. January 5, 2011.
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“Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.' 'My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ... 'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.' 'Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.' 'Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane.”
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“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.”
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“People find a way through just about anything.”
Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.144, Random House Books for Young Readers
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“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
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“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
Source : Eleanor Catton (2013). “The Luminaries”, p.563, Granta Books