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		I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Conor Oberst 
			 
			
				Bright Eyes  
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Faye Dunaway 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zadie Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Ant 
			 
			
				Adam and the Ants  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oscar Levant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Verghese 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's just funny that Americans have to contend with 2000 channels, and 60 different specific news sources, and the confusion that it creates, and the junk that we get to see is hilarious. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam McKay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dylan Moran 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dalai Lama 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fareed Zakaria 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You don't get something for nothingYou can't have freedom for free.You won't get wiseWith the sleep still in your eyesNo matter what your dream might be. - Something for Nothing (1976) 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Neil Peart 
			 
			
				Rush  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was never a fanatical movie person. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Malkovich 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Conor Oberst 
			 
			
				Bright Eyes