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		I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
	
	  Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger
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		I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
	
	  Laura Marling Laura Marling
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		I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
	
	  Maggie Stiefvater Maggie Stiefvater
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		There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
	
	  Imogen Heap Imogen Heap
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		Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
	
	  Qandeel Baloch Qandeel Baloch
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		In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
	
	  Rainbow Rowell Rainbow Rowell
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		I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
	
	  Questlove Questlove
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		They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
	
	  Owen Hart Owen Hart
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		Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.
	
	  Valerie Jarrett Valerie Jarrett
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		Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
	
	  Ramana Maharshi Ramana Maharshi
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		London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.
	
	  Carine Roitfeld Carine Roitfeld
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		You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.
	
	  Patricia Rae Patricia Rae
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		I never think of playing for South Africa. It's the furthest thing from my mind.
	
	  Kevin Pietersen Kevin Pietersen
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		President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.
	
	  Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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		A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.
	
	  Masashi Kishimoto Masashi Kishimoto
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		When things don't go your way, you've got to keep trying to do the right things.
	
	  Dele Alli Dele Alli
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		Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.
	
	  Ian Caldwell Ian Caldwell
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		I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
	
	  Maxine Hong Kingston Maxine Hong Kingston