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		What does literature do for me? I think I solve problems in my writing. They may be my problems, but perhaps others share them, and in the process of working these through, I hope to entertain.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sabina Murray
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul McCartney
			
			
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		To the extent that I can still believe in Bohemia, which I think is very important to me in some way that I don't yet really understand, to the extent that I still believe in that, I have to believe that there are viable degrees of freedom inherent if not realized in interstitial areas.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Gibson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dean Kamen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kate Tempest
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think the opportunity to deal with students and getting them properly oriented on science and theology and the relation between those is going to be important because science has been such an instrument used by the materialists to undermine the Christian faith and religious belief generally.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William A. Dembski
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I belive power can be used for good, I don't think every form of power is absolute evil. I wish I would have stepped in, and I really regret it. And that's why I really encourage young people who are organizing to speak up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kathleen Hanna
			
			
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		The level of achievement that we have at anything, is a reflection, of how well, we were able to focus on it. Because the only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Steven Siro Vai
			
			
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		I'm not a poster boy for misogyny and I don't think hip-hop should be either.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bakari Kitwana
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gautama Buddha
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What I'm interested in exploring with Clark Kent is when you have the power to do something that goes beyond what you think is the right thing to do and the difficulty of that. Meaning, to be Superman also means to withhold a lot of power. He could reshape the world however he thinks it should be. But Superman doesn't, historically, do those things. He allows a certain level of self-governing and a certain level of independence, I think out of an admiration for humanity. Because he's inspired by the best in us and he challenges us to inspire each other to be the best that we can be.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Scott Snyder
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Scarlett Johansson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Butler Yeats
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bette Midler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My brother Steve, who was a few years older than me, had 'Bad' on tape, and I remember listening to 'Smooth Criminal' and just thinking it was the coolest thing ever. I must have been five or six at the time, and I remember walking around school by myself thinking I was Michael Jackson. I wasn't dancing, exactly - more like walking musically.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kevin Parker
			
			
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		When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian Tracy