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"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."
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"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."

"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."

"The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides."

"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."

"You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done."
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"Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented."

"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers."

"When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges."

"When I started, I knew I didn't fit any visual that anyone was going to lie down and take their clothes off about. Work doesn't come to me; I go out and look for it."

"I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do."

"It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do."
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