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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
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"There's a lot that needs to be fixed in dating for men and women in the U.S. - there's a lot of pressure on women to do things they may not want to do. And if you start out unequal, you are not going to end up with equality."

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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
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"A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change."

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist
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"I'm nomadic. Even when I'm a visiting professor here at the City University of Hong Kong, in this campus flat, I'm constantly getting up, sitting down, picking this or that up. You can't do that and be a writer. You need to be able to sit still."

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Sienna Miller Actress
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"I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]"

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
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"An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room."

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Rob McKenna Politician
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"There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation."

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"We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.” He steps closer, but hesitates. “If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go."

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