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• People rarely speak of children; you hear of 'cohort groups' and 'standard variations,' but you don't hear much of boys who miss their cats or 6-year-olds who have to struggle with potato balls.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Children, Struggle, Cat

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• What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?

  Talib Kweli

  New York, Rocks, Guitar

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• We did this two-week boot camp before we filmed the movie. I got to know everybody in the group and we became friends. We got really tight throughout those two weeks.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Movie, Two, Actors

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• Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Break Up, Breakup, Differences

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

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• American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Men, Two, Outlook

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• I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me.

  Richard Lamm

  Impact, Office, Denver

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• As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition.

  Jon Landau

  Writing, Rocks, Dancing

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• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, Kids, Rocks

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2002.

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• In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

  Denis Leary

  Years, People, Challenges

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.

  Denis Leary

  Character, People, Weakness

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 22, 2005.

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• Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.

  Geddy Lee

  Artist, People, Fans

  "Geddy Lee and Billy Corgan talk albums vs singles". Interview with Joe Bosso, www.musicradar.com. June 21, 2012.

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• I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

  Annie Lennox

  Girl, Hair, Social

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• Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, People, United States

  Keynote Address to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 28 February 2009, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Resent, Private Sector

  "The Subsidies are Coming". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 12, 2013.

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• The media is a like any other group of people. Their universe is all that matters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, People, Matter

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• I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.

  Jeremy Lin

  Christian, School, Sunday

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Fog, Anarchist

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• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  Laura Linney

  Intelligent, Casting, Icy

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• Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Issues, Needs, Attention

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

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• Everyone is on the internet but they're not all talking with each other. There are groups upon groups out there, but they don't talk to one another. So while the internet brings everyone into a shared space, it does not necessarily bring them together.

  David Lynch

  Talking, Space, Together

  "David Lynch Interviews - Uncut". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 10, 2006.

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• It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Betrayal, Home, People

  "Are women human?" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2006.

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• What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

  Norman Mailer

  Evil, Minorities, Literature

  1966 Cannibals and Christians, 'A Speech AtBerkeley on Vietnam Day'.

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• The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

  John Malkovich

  Simple, Together, Performers

  "Malkovich: I don't always play the bad guy". Interview with Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2010.

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• We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, Secret, World

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• There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dislike Me, People, Certain

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