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  • Busta Rhymes I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Henry Ford I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Booker T. Washington I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ben Stein I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
    E! Online, 12-20-03
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Tony Benn I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oscar Wilde I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sting I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
    Sting
    English musician, singer, songwriter and actor (artist name of Gordon Sumner) (1951 - )
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  • Peter Ustinov I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable - any real insight or broad human sentiment.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Rosa Parks I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Buster Keaton I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Adam Sandler I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I dream of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Ann Beattie I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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