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— Jesse Ventura

Politics1951

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— Joel Bakan

Music1959

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"If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists …"

— Amitabh Bachchan

acting1942

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