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Antoine de Saint-Exupery Writer, Aviator
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"But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different."

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Winston Churchill Politician, Writer, Historian
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"Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations."

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Valentino Rossi Motorcycle Racer
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"In 2009, I didn't like that Yamaha signed such a young and competitive teammate [Jorge Lorenzo]. But now everything is different. We are more mature. Everyone knows his role and position. Things are clear."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
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"My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal."

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Tim Roth Actor
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"I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?"

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Tony Scott Film Director, Producer
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"Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy."

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Spike Lee Filmmaker, Actor
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"I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
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"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it."

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L. Frank Baum Author
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"To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
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"I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are."

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