Claire Dobie

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• CA, US

Barack, Whoopie Goldberg, Stephen Colbert, John Stewart, Shirley MacClaine, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Stevie Wonder, Will and Jada Smith, George Clooney, Rachel Maddow, Bill Gates, Bruno Mars, and although they've left the planet, wish I could have met Michael and Whitney

Writing, editing, researching, teaching pro bono, foreign languages (not that I remember much but I can get by in Spanish and French), and learning about different cultures

words and word origins, reading, education, trivia, any new information, people watching, astrology for fun, ALL MUSIC except heavy metal, mitigating the hate our country seems, sadly, to embrace

Name it. I'll claim it.

Scandal, Person of Interest, Blue Bloods, Game of Thrones, Borjias, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Soup, Community, The Ed Show, Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Big Bang Theory, Colbert, Stewart, The Voice, Homeland, Dexter,Fringe, Leverage, anything Sci-Fi orAction

Shoot 'Em Up (Clive Owen), Taken (Liam--sigh), Being There, Hurt Locker, Seven, Eraser, Casablanca, Seven Pounds, Die Hard (all), Snakes on A Plane, Witches of Eastwick, Grand Canyon, all Bond series, The Cheap Detective, Last of the Mohicans, Murder by Death, Annie Hall, The Fisher King, Citizen Kane, Godfather I and II, The Color Purple, Maltese Falcon, Shawshank Redemption, Amadeus, A Fish Called Wanda, JFK, Matrix, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Men Who Stare at Goats, The Usual Suspects, Witness for the Prosecution,The Blind Side, Lost in Translation, Up In The Air, Heat, Fargo, Face Off, Avatar, Witness, Air Force I, Syriana, A History of Violence, The Help, Gladiator, Polar Express, Thelma and Louise, Cinema Paradisio, The Rock

Waiting for Godot, The Metamorphosis, The Bluest Eye, Animal Farm, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, What Would Machiavelli Do, Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man, The Covenant, Catch 22, The Catcher in the Rye, The Sound and the Fury, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Wuthering Heights, Molokai, and any reference/ trivia books

"I disagree with what you say but I defend to the death your right to say it." (attributed to Voltaire)

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sherlock Holmes/Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of." Benjamin Franklin

Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis, Edward R. Murrow, Margaret Sanger, Jesse Owens, Barack Obama, Rosa Parks, Alice Paul, Martin Luther King, Madeleine Albright, Hillary Clinton, John F Kennedy, Sen. Ted Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Clarence Darrow, Frederick Douglas, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Thurgood Marshall, Colin Powell, Jim Thorpe, Tim Linsecum, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Tony Morrison, Maya Angelou