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Aung San Suu Kyi Politician, Activist
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"I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music."

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Ava DuVernay Film Director
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"As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive."

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Ava DuVernay Film Director
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"The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found the truth in the stories I was telling as a doc, I could teach myself filmmaking through doc filmmaking."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one."

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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him by force. It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own."

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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman
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"The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with a focus on working with the many experienced reporters and writers impacted by the economic contraction. The pieces will range from long-form investigations to short breaking news stories and will be presented in a variety of media - including text, audio, and video."

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Anne Frank Diaries Writer
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"Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be."

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Anne Frank Diaries Writer
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"Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"We need policies for long-term security that are designed by women, focused on women, executed by women not at the expense of men, or instead of men, but alongside and with men."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories and work for as long as I have. I'm sure there'll be a few more films but I'm happy that I'm able to be selective."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"And I didn't know what that meant for a long time. It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others."

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Andrew Peterson Musician
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"Eric Peters is a chronicler of his journey; he's been a faithful steward of the story God is telling through him, and this newest chapter, BiRDS OF RELOCATiON, is Eric's testimony that along the way there are moments of deep joy and gratitude-they may seem brief, but they're bright, and they're worth singing about. The joy I hear on this record heralds a long and welcome peace."

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Amy Pascal Film Producer
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"You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time."

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