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There are millions of women all around the world who are in dangerous, terrifying situations. It's up to us as storytellers to give people hope, to let people know that there is a way out.

~Alex O'Loughlin

Topics: Around Dangerous Give Hope Know Millions Out People Situations Storytellers Terrifying Up Us Way Who Women World

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The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: Applause Around Camera Designed Less Organized State Structured Than Union Written

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Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: Amount Around Because Breaks Lucky Much People Questions Rewards Rich Rich People Series Society Ted Tiptoe Unbelievably

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For the cable news guest, nothing happens for a while until suddenly everything happens very quickly. After you receive your television face, you stand around for a while, ignored, until you're sat down at a desk and asked to argue with strangers.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: After Argue Around Asked Cable Desk Down Everything Face Guest Happens Ignored News Nothing Quickly Receive Sat Stand Strangers Suddenly Television Until Very While You Your

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I want to have lots of bodyguards around me and be surrounded by beautiful women while watching my brother play at Wimbledon.

~Alex Pettyfer

Topics: Around Beautiful Beautiful Women Bodyguards Brother Lots Me Play Surrounded Want Watching While Wimbledon Women

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I was a young kid; I did a little time in the Billerica House of Correction, and it basically turned my life around because I said, 'Oh, I'll never be locked up again. They're not taking away my privacy.' So I flipped a coin: heads - Miami, tails -California.

~Alex Rocco

Topics: Again Around Away Basically Because California Coin Correction Did Flipped Heads House Kid Life Little Little Time Locked Locked Up Miami My Life Never Oh Privacy Said Tails Taking Time Turned Up Young Young Kid

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I spent the first seven years of my life in a caravan traveling around Europe and the United States because my parents were just obsessed with traveling.

~Alex Sharp

Topics: Around Because Caravan Europe First Just Life My Life Obsessed Parents Seven Spent States Traveling United United States Were Years

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In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Around Couple Days Dozen Feathers Her Married Three Uganda Village Were While Wife Yellow

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The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Adaptive Amazon Any Around Dozen Easily Forest Forests Humans Met More Move Only Other People Rain Reduced Size Smaller Species Than You

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Nature got it right with the cranes. They have been around since the Eocene, which ended 34 million years ago.

~Alex Shoumatoff

Topics: Around Been Ended Got Million Million Years Nature Right Since Which Years Years Ago

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