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		I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Steven Spielberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bat for Lashes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
				Olusegun Obasanjo 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Ma 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Daniel Cormier 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ha-Joon Chang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				O. Henry 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		We felt that the plan that the city eventually developed was workable. Controlling dust is a very difficult thing at best, particularly here in the Southwest during dry times of the year. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. M. Roberts 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				William Sloane Coffin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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				Bananarama  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edgar Allan Poe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sarah Vaughan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer of the Fistful trilogy because he was the street sweeper of the desert, a man who put his life at risk exclusively for the money. I'm not saying that he went against the law, but he put himself within the wings of the law only when it was something that he could profit by. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Sergio Leone 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gautama Buddha 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nelson Rockefeller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				George Washington 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oscar Wilde 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If those people survive, others will be emboldened. If they don't, others will be intimidated. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Calvin Jillson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Steven Spielberg