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I grew up feeling voiceless and powerless as a kid. I turned to books - fantasy books in particular - to give me comfort. As I grew up, I realized I could find that sense of power and voice if I...

There are good things about Indonesia, but there are bad things about it that I hope can be fixed.

I have one brother who is a surgeon, there's me, and my other brother builds boats.

I'm a really huge fan of papaya juice.

An Op-Ed by a Republican criticizing the Democrats, or vice versa, is easy to come by and not that interesting. But a Democrat who takes issue with his or her party, or a Republican who does that, is...

My parents told me, 'Skating is a privilege, not a right, and school always comes first.'

You know you've come full circle when you're working with Charo.

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

The thing is, all the time I press my radio button, it is broadcast, and sometimes it sounds a bit arrogant - especially the 'I'm not here to finish fourth' - and that is just what comes up in my...

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

There were times I was told, 'You are too gay.' I turned down a lot of things because producers said they wanted me to be different. I said, 'It's not going to happen.'

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An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself....

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

I feel very uncomfortable with respect to looking at inflation.

We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.

I read articles in the gym in the morning on a tablet or phone. Then I print out a stack of them that I carry around with me throughout the workday.

The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, became one of the most neoliberal societies on the planet is well...

I don't feel like there is anybody out there with more confidence than me.

The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a...

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.

In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.

I've had losses in my career before, and I've always come back stronger from those losses.

I used to be on 'The Bold & The Beautiful'; that character, Bridget Forrester, is dear to my heart, and of course, the reruns of that you can see.

I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

I love that drag is political. For me, one of the reasons I started doing drag was reading about how in the past, drag performers were able to organize the queer community and move us forward.