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" Who really wants to be themselves when they’re teenagers? " - Stephen Colbert

" Women simply cannot stay home and get to the top at work. " - Katie Hopkins

" I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life. " - Chaz Bono

" This is America. In our country it doesn’t matter a lick where you are from, it only matters where you’re going. " - Carole Radziwill

" Ukraine is a big country. It is 45-46 million people. It has got a lot of modern industry; it also has a lot of very key resources. There is no reason for it not to be one of the leading countries of Europe. " - Wesley Clark

" I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school. " - Neko Case

" I don’t want to sound like anyone else, I wanted to be in my own creative space and find this river of melody myself. " - Thomas Grennan

" I paid absolutely no attention to politics as a teenager. " - Michelle Lujan Grisham

" We should entrust our young people with a voice to express their views on what their futures should look like. " - Caroline Lucas

" I love my children and care greatly for their future. If they decide they just want to loaf around for a bit between the ages of 16 and 25, that’s perfectly fine by me. I did it, and I’m doing fine, thanks. Sometimes ‘leaving kids to their own devices’ is the best thing for them. " - John Niven