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Women are born with pain built in. It's our physical destiny. Period pains, sore boobs, childbirth, you know. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives. Men don't. They have to seek it out.

Fleabag

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"Episode #2.3." Fleabag, written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, directed by Harry Bradbeer, season 2, episode 3, Amazon Studios and British Broadcasting Corporation, 2019.

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I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.

Before Sunset

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Before Sunset. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/ Detour Filmproduction/Columbia Pictures, 2004.

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Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 13.

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But I am gonna ask you questions and every time you don't give me answers, I'm gonna cut something off and I promise you, they will be things you will miss! Give me your other arm!

Kill Bill: Volume 1

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Kill Bill: Volume 1. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. A Band Apart, 2003.

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Everything's got a price, bitch.

John Wick

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John Wick. Directed by Chad Stahelski, Thunder Road Pictures/87Eleven Productions/MJW Films/DefyNite Films, 2014.

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We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Grutter v. Bollinger

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O'Connor, Sandra Day. United States, Supreme Court. Grutter v. Bollinger. United States Reports, vol. 539, 23 June 2003, pp. 306-395. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/306/.

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History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Rahm Emanuel

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Emanuel, Rahm. Quoted in "In Crisis, Opportunity for Obama." Written by Gerald F. Seib. Wall Street Journal, 21 Nov. 2008.

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If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

John Green

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Green, John. Looking for Alaska. Dutton Juvenile, 2005.

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable-but then, so did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Le Guin, Ursula K. Speech in Acceptance at the National Book Foundation Metal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 19 Nov. 2014, The National Book Foundation, New York City, NY, USA, https://www.ursulakleguin.com/nbf-medal.

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For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away.

Hedda Sterne

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Sterne, Hedda. "Hedda Sterne." Interviewed by Joan Simon. Art in America, Feb. 2007, www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/hedda-sterne

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Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

Steve Bannon

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Bannon, Steve. "Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect’s Strategist Plots 'An Entirely New Political Movement'." Interviewed by Michael Wolff. Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2016.

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We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do.

Satya Nadella

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Nadella, Satya. Quoted in “Microsoft Build: Data privacy must be protected, CEO Satya Nadella tells technologists.” Written by Rachel Lerman. The Seattle Times, 7 May 2018. Originally a keynote speech. Build conference. 7 May 2018, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA.

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I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world as it is is vexin' enough.

True Grit

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True Grit. Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Skydance Productions/Mike Zoss Productions/Scott Rudin Productions, 2010.

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I know things can really get rough when you go it alone. Don’t go thinking you gotta be tough and bleed like a stone.

The Shins

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Simple Song

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Mercer, James. "Simple Song." Port of Morrow. Aural Apothecary/Columbia Records, 2012.

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Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe.

David Foster Wallace

2005 Kenyon College commencement address

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Wallace, David Foster. Commencement address at Kenyon College. Commencement. 21 May 2005, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA.

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Wallace, David Foster. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion about Living a Compassionate Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

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The media's the opposition party.

Steve Bannon

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Bannon, Steve. "Trump Strategist Stephen Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut'." Interviewed by Michael M. Grynbaum. The New York Times, 26 Jan. 2017.

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