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I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Comfort Comfort Zone Fail Good
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'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

Admit Am Away Children
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My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.

About Actually Any Being
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I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

App Around Awesome Facebook
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

Alarm Blackberry Clock Me
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When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

Accuse College Did Excuse
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I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
Become Get Obsessive Quite
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

Apple Competitors Fantastic Free
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There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.

Application Bureaucrat Draw Line
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Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Academics Affects Air Base
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If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Best Find Someone Already
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I will say that when I retire, I will probably do something to help others. I don't know know what it will be... probably I'll get involved in some charity.

Charity Get Help Involved
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I write 200 columns a year, you know. That means I have to have 200 opinions a year. Sometimes, I don't give a damn one way or the other, but that's my job, so I got to take a side.

Columns Damn Give Got
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I gave 738 Rotary Club speeches, and it was just driving me crazy, so someone said, 'Why don't you charge money?'

Charge Club Crazy Driving
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I'm a staunch believer in enterprise, and I'm glad I live in a country where - I don't think some people understand this, but if I work hard, I get rewarded for it.

Believer Country Enterprise Get
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I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.

Beer Bigot Blazer Drink
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You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

Absolutely Absolutely Everything Am Because
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I was raised to think women had babies, stayed at home, and men worked. By the time I got ready to do it, I thought I had all the answers. Only somebody had changed the questions.

Answers Babies By The Time Changed
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If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Geography Gives History Nations
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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Achieved Against Civilization Human
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Don't put on something so tight thinking, 'Oh, I can wear this for four hours.' Don't do that to yourself!

Four Hours Oh Put
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Always Character Deal Even
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Better Hell Lot Nature
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Back Beautiful Beautiful People Gently
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
Maintain Oppose Something Motivate
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
Activism Demonstration I Write Personal
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I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

Action Ever Expect Get
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

Easy Follow Gift Got
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Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

Being Cool Doing Else
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Somebody must have a different view from all these views. I have a different view in Nigeria, and I'm not ready to surrender that will.

View Ready Somebody Surrender
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There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

Any Dislikes Feminism Think
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Sometimes I think I am still that 5-year-old girl playing with her dogs in the yard. That's how I see myself.

Am Dogs Girl Her
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

Because Death Died Each
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Become Canvas Concrete Different
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

Confidence Confident Even Key
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

Afraid Kid Like Someone
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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

America Europe Example Following
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Could Drawing Found In My Opinion
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Better Blame Dream Real
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

Ages Develop Developed Middle
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Any Fool How Know
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If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Die Discovered Fit Live
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Academic Being Certain Colleagues
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

About Also Always Clear
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Acceptance Art Done Favor
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Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Action Better Case Learn
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Defend Intervene Liberty Press
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Catch Cold Fear Lest
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

Also Animals Appear Appearance
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It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

Better Cheats Does Relationship
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