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"I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat."
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"Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television."

"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."
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"The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe."

"I want my permanent address to be in Oklahoma. Someday, when I get married and I have kids, that's where I want to raise my kids."

"Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school."
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"I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully."

"I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory."

"The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view."

"So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable."

"The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame."

"I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality."

"But as for activism, my parents did what they could, given the constraints, but were never involved in the causes I think of when I think of activists."
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