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“Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.”
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“In 2005... Mumbai, India, saw that country's most intense recorded instance of rainfall - 3 feet of rain in twenty-four hours.”
Source : Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co
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“From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.”
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“The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'”
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“I was forever changed by my experience on Once and Again. All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.”
Source : "Susanna Thompson: ‘Arrow’ Star Talks Career And Staying Young". Interview with Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 29, 2012.
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“Art has a way of confronting us, of reminding us, of engaging us, in what it means to be human, and what it means to be human is to be flawed, is to be contradictory, is to be often weak, and yet despite all of these what we would consider drawbacks, that we're also quite beautiful. Spin is the opposite.”
Source : "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.
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“Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.”
Source : Clinton Rossiter (1948). “Constitutional Dictatorship”, p.20, Transaction Publishers
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“No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.”
Source : William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.169, Anchor