And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I’m betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own. -- Jessica Valenti

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I had a schoolmaster who was a supernumerary at Glyndebourne Opera, and through ,I got a job as a walk-on in Peter Hall's production of 'Don Giovanni' there in 1975 or 1976. - Richard McCabe

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

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Old women can see through walls.

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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. — Oprah Winfrey

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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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Without any doubt, I am striving for power. -Alexei Navalny

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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

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Between us, we have the fire and the water. I'm quite sure that together, we can take on the wind. ― R.F. Kuang

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But a man cannot remain indifferent to the world around him; it worries him and torments him to think that he could be happier somewhere else, and that he is where he is simply through a mistake of fate.

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