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  • August Wilson For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Bill Plympton For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Bob Harper For me, working out is a form of therapy. It's cathartic for me; it's a good stress reliever. I know that when I go to the gym I am taking care of myself, and I know I'll feel so much better afterwards.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bing Gordon For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an 'Internet treasure' - a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn't live without.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Agnes Smedley For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • William James For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Barack Obama For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ann Druyan For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Bethany Mota For my fragrance, I knew I wanted something sweet but with a different side to it. I have a lot of vanilla notes and bakery shop scents, but then I also have muskier notes that make it a bit edgier. It's fun but also sophisticated.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Brit Morin For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Beth Ditto For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Francis Bacon For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • James Boswell For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Harriet Martineau For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Bertrand Russell For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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