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		You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
	
	  Danica Patrick Danica Patrick
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		Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
	
	  Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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		I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
	
	  Larry Mullen, Jr.
			
			
				U2 Larry Mullen, Jr.
			
			
				U2
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		When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
	
	  Isaac Hanson
			
			
				Hanson Isaac Hanson
			
			
				Hanson
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		I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
	
	  Yusef Komunyakaa Yusef Komunyakaa
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		My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
	
	  Orhan Pamuk Orhan Pamuk
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		I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
	
	  Sam Smith Sam Smith
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		My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
	
	  Laura Benanti Laura Benanti
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		The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
	
	  Talib Kweli
			
			
				Black Star Talib Kweli
			
			
				Black Star
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		If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.
	
	  Candice Swanepoel Candice Swanepoel
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		New York City has an integration problem.
	
	  Laura Moser Laura Moser
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		'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
	
	  Feist Feist