"The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them."

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"It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade."

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"He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between."

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