"America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates."

-- Oriana Fallaci

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“The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.”
“Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy.”
“Though public pronouncements of Israeli officials emphasize peace and mutuality, unilateralism actually drives Israeli actions.”
“The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servantsâ€™ quarters.”
“So much leather inside my car my horn moos.”
“Just work. Don't wait. Everybody's waiting until they have the perfect idea to start working. Even if you have an inkling of what you want to do, start moving towards it. And it's going to flesh itself out through the process of moving towards the goal. And by the time you get to where you're going to be, it's not going to look anything like it did when you sat on the couch thinking about it. And if you wait until it's perfect in your head before you get of the couch and start working on it, that's never going to happen.”
“After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.”
“Malcolm Turnbull got a majority in the parliament that he is trying to ignore and lock his own members of parliament into positions that they don't hold, and sometimes into positions that we know he doesn't hold. It's no wonder the public's started turning on him.”

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