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Anne Shirley Fictional Character
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"You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is."

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Sandra Lee Chef
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"I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet."

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Geoff Davis Actor
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"The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work."

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Jaime King Actress, Model
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"I'm not a big heel person anyways, I'll wear them on the red carpet, but I've always been the one who loves loafers and brogues."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere."

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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes."

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Cornel West Philosopher
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"I'm black, so, you know, I'm again with black folk, but it's a love that spills over to vanilla suburbs and red reservations and brown barrios and yellow slices."

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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
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"No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day."

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Naomi Watts Actress
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"On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength."

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Karen Russell Author
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"It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation."

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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development."

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
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"The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too."

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