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  • Ben Gibbard It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Busy Philipps It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Alan Alda It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Sutter It's not good or bad, but closers have changed things. I don't think you are going to win a World Series without one. Where would the Yankees be without Mariano Rivera?
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Brandi Carlile It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as a kid, learning about the 'Elton John AIDS Foundation.' And I was obsessed with The Indigo Girls. And they are the consummate activist group, always reaching out, especially to Native causes and things like that.
    Brandi Carlile
    American singer-songwriter and producer (1981 - )
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  • Beth Riesgraf It's so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I'm being optimistic. And when 'Leverage' comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can't really sit and wait for things to come to you.
    Beth Riesgraf
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Billy Higgins It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • John Wooden It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • J. Willard Marriott It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
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  • Claude M. Bristol It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Carol Bartz It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Bill Engvall Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Bradley Whitford John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Archibald MacLeish Journalism wishes to tell what it is that has happened everywhere as though the same things had happened for every man. Poetry wishes to say what it is like for any man to be himself in the presence of a particular occurrence as though only he were alone there.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Francis Bacon Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ben Stein Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Billy Porter Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Hugh Prather Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
    Hugh Prather
    American self-help author (1938 - 2010)
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  • Emanuel Swedenborg Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
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