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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist

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"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."

Men Beautiful Down And

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Russell Simmons Entrepreneur, Music Producer

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"You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts."

Down And Shortcuts

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak."

Littles Time Down And

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Reggie Watts Comedian, Musician

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"It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in."

Moving Kind Down And

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar

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"Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?"

Book Together Down And

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Philip Green Businessman

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"Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself."

Self Esteem Down And Setback

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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress

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"Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan."

Years Down And Seven

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader

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"Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious."

Heart Mind Down And

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer

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"I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present."

Stuff Down And Slow Down

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet

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"Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears."

Men Writing Down And

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John Muir Naturalist, Writer

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"Look up and down and round about you.!"

Looks Down And Look Up

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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author

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"When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)"

Might Quality Down And

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Charlie Munger Investor, Businessman

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"Just keep your head down and do your best."

Down And Maximum Effort

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter

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"The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came around."

Song Down And Pencils

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist

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"You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it."

Writing Down And

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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer

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"Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader

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"In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself."

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David Foster Wallace Writer

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"Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get."

Writing Fiction Down And

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Clint Eastwood Actor, Director, Producer

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"When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along."

Brain Down And Sitting Down

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar

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"When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried."

Wake Up Down And Sat

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