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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

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• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
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• I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

  

  Gary Hamel
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• Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  

  Walt Disney
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• While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
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• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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• I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.

  

  Laura Harrier
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• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
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• We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

  

  Irwin Rose
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• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
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• I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.

  

  B. B. King
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• I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

  

  Laura Marano
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• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

  Namie Amuro
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• I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
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• I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.

  

  Geoff Davis
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• They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.

  

  Jack Kilby
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• My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

  

  Frederick the Great
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• I grew up watching movies that just transformed my vision, not just in cinema, in life, and you discover that this - it's an endless tool.

  

  Pablo Larrain
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• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
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