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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

Been Congress History Tradition
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

Call City Perishable Washington
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I had a friend who was getting married. I said, 'You're getting married - I didn't know about all this!' She said, 'I need health benefits.'

About Benefits Friend Getting
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Presidents and speakers for over 100 years had tried to pass affordable care for all Americans. It was challenged over and over. The Supreme Court declared it constitutional.

100 Years Affordable American Care
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By ancestry, I was born to rule.
Ancestry Born IWasBorn Rule
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A waste is someone who sits and dreams while others are working.

Waste Dreams Others Working
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We have a growing new fan base, and we wanted to get out now, and play now, and the timing was right.

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When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

About Everywhere Going Information
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

Assistant Could Dad Exactly
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We did something this year that was not based on animosity.
Animosity Based Did Something
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
Friends Had Kindergarten Same
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Continue Elaborate Elite Fall
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Another Could Even Feeling
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When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

Geek Huge Insult Kid
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Art Artist Baltimore Before
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

Because Deep Find Found
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Actor Becoming College Director
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.

Affect Began Community Could
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Did Direction Every Every Time
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Cruel Else Grow Just
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How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

Arena Bands Biggest Ever
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My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Carry Cases Doctor Duty
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I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.

Getting Illegal Knew Most
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The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Century Each Event Horror
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
Born I Was Born Life Moment
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

All My Life Always Born Gave
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God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

Ambition Conceived Destiny Extraordinary
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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Activity Answer Back Because
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My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

About Basically Believed Cook
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One of my biggest dreams in life was to own a house that I could eat in the toilet, because at some point in my life I lived in a house that had a pit latrine. I think I am at this point in my life because of the grace of God and my hard work.

Biggest Dream Life Hard work
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I always knew that I would make a success of music, that I would be a celebrity; so I just trained myself on how I was going to manage success when it eventually comes.

Success Music Celebrity Knew
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Every 10 years or so, there was a moment when I'd say, even subconsciously, 'Is that all there is?' You've got to find ways to keep it fresh for yourself.

Even Every Find Fresh
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I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right.
Age Always Am Being
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Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.

Before City Grew Important
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I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach people by making them laugh than by shaking a fist and saying, 'Don't you see how oppressed you are?'

Always Easier Fist How
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Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

Mother Interestingly enough Feminist Mind
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So I didn't think it was odd for women to have technological knowledge and yet be mothers, and very devoted family members and have friends.

Odd Women Technological knowledge Mothers
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There were hardly any sports for girls when I was growing up, but I loved to race the guys and climb trees and all that sort of stuff.

Sports Growing up Loved Race
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When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

My parent Believe God Religion
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It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

Drag Everyone Go Kinds
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I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things.

About Against Alive Anyone
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Food was supposed to be a slightly bigger part of 'Heartburn,' and it actually didn't turn out to be because of me. I just didn't find a way to make it a bigger part of the movie as I should have, and we cut several scenes in which food was a major character.

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If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.

Book Child Grown Grown-Up
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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

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It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.

Another Camera Expression Form
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Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was 26. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're 34.

Anyone Bikini Entire Go
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Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

Amazing Been Before Building
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The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.
Back Best Children Divorce
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People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant.

People Funny Child Accountant
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

Account Also Beginning Certain
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