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  • Cai Guo-Qiang For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
    Cai Guo-Qiang
    Chinese artist (1957 - )
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  • John Wooden For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Bill Medley For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Laurence Sterne For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Benjamin Watson For everybody, I think that we all, when we look at this situation of race, we need a change of heart, and I said it before. I believe the heart change comes from repenting of your racism, repenting of your bias, repenting of your prejudice and understanding that, you know what, God sees us all the same.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Oprah Winfrey For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Judy Garland For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Anthony Doerr For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Bo Burnham For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Adam Duritz For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
    Adam Duritz
    American musician and record producer (1964 - )
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  • Britney Spears For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Callie Khouri For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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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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  • Bre Pettis For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Arthur Sullivan For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
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  • Bertolt Brecht For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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