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" I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance. "
Meryl Streep
Easy
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" Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength? "
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" The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves. "
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" It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. "
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" I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally. "
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" Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. "
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" It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. "
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" Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living. "
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