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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality. Ian Mckellen
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My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'. Will Poulter
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Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning. Wendy Kopp
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay. Zubin Mehta
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When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125. Yani Tseng
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I haven't been approached to do a 'Doctor Who' movie. I think they would be scraping the bottom of the barrel if they asked me to do it. Colin Baker
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I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table! Emma Watson
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Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him. Elizabeth Wurtzel
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My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.' Twyla Tharp
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown? Yotam Ottolenghi
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It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.
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We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school. Thucydides
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There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. Timothy Noah
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I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. Thomas Friedman
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I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows. Idina Menzel
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own. Becky G
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Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life. David Hyde Pierce
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I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others. Nile Rodgers
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That was the plan for the whole game, but we just didn't do it. We tried, but they played good defense. Once we got it worked out, we kept going at it and going at it, so it finally worked. Chris Richard
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That whole last minute was just surreal. We finally did everything that we needed to do. It just took us until the last two possessions to get to that point.
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That was a good win for us, ... We finally put together a full game. The players should be proud because they did it as a team
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We just didn't react (early). It took a little while, but finally we started reacting and started doing some good things.
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We were having trouble with their press and getting into our offense, but we finally got into a groove. The other night it was 16 teams left, then eight. Now it's four. We just want to finish the mission.
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We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.
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The patterns we are seeing are similar to those witnessed in the last campaign, but the past is not always a reliable predictor of the future.
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Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy. Victoria Osteen
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I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders. Richard Daley
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot. Nas
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She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. Cecelia Ahern
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The saviors of the world, society's last hope. Bertrand Russell
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The always-important last at-bat. That's big, especially here. Jim Edmonds
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The $5 million will not last us until the summer.
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That was it, that was the last straw,
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I was so rusty I should be sponsored by WD-40, Nick Faldo
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He's a little rusty right now. His timing is off and his shape isn't back where we want it to be.
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She hasn't pitched a lot, and I think she's just rusty right now. She could come around any day now.
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I've got to get back into the feel of the game. I was a little rusty out there. But for the most part, I thought I did all right.
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Rusty would do anything he could to race, Mike Wallace
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I did all right. I was rusty in some things.
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