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Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

Waris Dirie

Girl, Female, Mutilation

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I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

Dirk Benedict

Voice, People, Different

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The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

Maria Bartiromo

Data, Analysis, Level Playing Field

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It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

Mario Balotelli

Children, Responsibility, Looks

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Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines.

Laurel Clark

Ocean, Weather, Space

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I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

Simon Baker

Shelter, Investors

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

Jenna Fischer

Roles, Disappear, Persons

"Interview: Jenna Fischer on a Little Help, Dinner Theater, And Breaking the Pam Mold". Interview with Christine Champ, www.mtv.com. June 7, 2010.

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For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

Daniel Clowes

School, Kids, Rays

Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.

Brian Baird

Taken, Cutting, Thinking

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There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

Sandra Fluke

Taken, Blood, Asking

"CNN’s Will Cain Grills Sandra Fluke Over Contraception Op-Ed", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

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Whenever we say a person's name, notice whether we have stated more than a fact. For example, the judgment, 'She's thoughtless' goes beyond the facts 'She said she'd call me and she didn't.

Joko Beck

Names, Facts, Judgment

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In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

Edward Bach

Teaching, Civilization, Perfection

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For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.

Dave Franco

Brother, Smart, Care

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as "steroids.

Malcolm Gladwell

Baseball, Media, Talking

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If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

Peter Ackroyd

Thinking, Wasting My Time, Fraud

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TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

Alan Bradley

Teaching, Thinking, Together

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I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always have my eye on what I want. And I don't want anything to distract me from that.

Ashley Benson

Eye, People, Crowds

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.

Mohamed El-Erian

Country, Europe, Effort

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I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

Robert Englund

Technology, Horror Genre, Used

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own Christlike yearning to reach out with love, as He does.

Russell M. Nelson

Self Esteem, Feelings, Doe

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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

Manny Farber

Art, Light, Evening

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Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

Nina Fedoroff

Fall, Jumping, Stripes

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Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

Anthony Michael Hall

Shooting, Maximizing, Wheels

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In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

Bill James

Important, Details, Stories

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Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.

Graham Joyce

Order, Looks, Stuff

"Prize-winning author Graham Joyce to write script for Doom 4" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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