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“We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.”
Source : "U.S. strikes in central Baghdad", www.cnn.com. April 7, 2003.
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“I think what really clicked for me was when I started booking commercials as a dancer... just being on set and seeing every element of production, it was magic to me.”
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“Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.”
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“The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn.”
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“If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.”
Source : "Alain Robert: 'French Spiderman' on his death-defying stunts". Interview with Stefanie Blendis, Rosie Tomkins, Teo Kermeliotis, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2010.
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“it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.”
Source : Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr
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“I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.”
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“If my results are not good I will lose my job.”