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"If I could take what I've learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, then every misstep of mine was worthwhile. I'm already predicting my future shame at thinking I had anything to offer you, but also my future glory in having stopped you from trying an expensive juice cleanse or thinking that it was your fault...
3) Year of yes
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The creator of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Scandal" details the one-year experiment with saying "yes" that transformed her life, revealing how accepting unexpected invitations she would have otherwise declined enabled powerful benefits.
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George Carlin perfected the art of making audiences double over with laughter while simultaneously making people wake up to the realities (and insanities) of life in the twentieth century. Born at the very beginning of his decades-long career in comedy, Kelly Carlin witnessed her father's transformation in the '70s, and watched her father constantly reinvent himself and his comedy. But she also had a front row seat to the roller coaster turmoil of...
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Success, excess, danger, and exuberant fun come together in Chuck Barris' unlikely autobiography -- the tale of a wildly flamboyant 1970s TV producer who hosted The Gong Show and produced The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game. Yet Barris also spent almost twenty years as a decorated covert assassin for the CIA, claiming to have killed over thirty people.--Container.
7) Jim Henson
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He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of his fertile imagination: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird. The Muppets made Jim Henson a household name, but they were just part of his remarkable story.