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		The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.
	
	  John Morton John Morton
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		I always see myself as a character actor, but Remington Steele was me. I gave up on trying to be any character. I just put myself as me in this world of Remington Steele and the grand pretender.
	
	  Pierce Brosnan Pierce Brosnan
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		I thought I'd be living a much more bohemian life and be very poor. I never thought I'd do comedy or be married living in the suburbs. Every time I try to plan my life out it just doesn't come to pass, and I think that's a great experience.
	
	  Michael Ian Black Michael Ian Black
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		I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.
	
	  Bill Kristol Bill Kristol
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		I'm not one of those shoppers where I go to a store and I'm like, trying it on, I'm not sure, 'Oh, can you put this on hold?' No. It's either love it or hate it. And it's the same way with scripts. I usually know within the first 10 pages. If I don't latch into it by then, then it's not going to happen.
	
	  Emma Stone Emma Stone
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		Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music "for" their fans make empty, transparent art. The true fan does not want you to make music for them, they want you to make music for you, because that's the whole reason they fell in love with you in the first place.
	
	  Talib Kweli
			
			
				Black Star Talib Kweli
			
			
				Black Star
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		Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out.
	
	  David Petraeus David Petraeus
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		Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.
	
	  Stuart Wilde Stuart Wilde
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		Men do not fail; they give up trying.
	
	  Elihu Root Elihu Root
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		I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.
	
	  Kristen Stewart Kristen Stewart
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		I was trying to heal wounds all the time, whether it meant having affairs or having attitude. I didn't want to show how sad I was.
	
	  Peggy Lipton Peggy Lipton
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		My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.
	
	  Clint Smith Clint Smith