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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
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"Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective."

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Tim Wu Legal Scholar
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"Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there."

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Todd May Philosopher, Author
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"I don't want to say that the creativity would give out - I can't imagine what argument I would bring forward for that. But I think that there's something on the individual level that's a limitation."

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Tom Allen Politician
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"By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!"

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best."

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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
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"I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay. Yet I have a reputation for being cooperative with the press. That's because when I do give an interview, I'm willing to tell the truth about what I do for a living and how goofy it is sometimes - and how volatile it can also be."

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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
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"I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At the end of the day, who gives a ... . Good for you. This is America. Vote your conscience."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented."

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Tony Harrison Poet, Playwright
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"I don't really have one type favorite type of candy. When I was younger we used to always go to the rich neighborhoods where they give out the big candy bars, not the little fun-sized ones. We'd go back two and three times, hit them again and again. They didn't care and we loved it."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"You can be a They and be a billionaire. Not all billionaires are happy and fulfilled. My whole thing is, add value to whoever you meet. Sometimes, the value is just being happy and loving, giving an extra couple of moments to look someone in the eye. Nothing replaces authentic feeling and emotion."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you'll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"I'm on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life."

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"I believe that life supports what supports more of life. In other words, motivation does matter. If you're just trying to take care of yourself, you're part of life and I believe life steps in and gives you a certain level of insight."

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