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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Guy

"It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal."

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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
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"We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'"

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Tim Allen Actor, Comedian
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"I'm actually more of a cat guy than a dog person because I travel so much. I love cats."

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Richard Ford Novelist
Guy

"Paul Ryan's just a really, deeply evil little creature. But he's not little; he's actually quite tall, I'm sorry to see. I'm always sorry when really bad guys are tall."

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Slavoj Žižek Philosopher, Cultural Critic
Guy

"We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it."

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Stephen King Author
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"As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style."

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Russell Wilson American Football Player
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"I'm more of an oldies guy. I'll say this - Michael Jackson, best entertainer of all time. Luther Vandross, best male singer of all time. Whitney Houston, best female singer of all time...and when Teddy Pendergrass says turn off the lights, turn 'em off. That's what I got for you."

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Oliver North Military Officer, Political Commentator
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"I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it."

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Katie Price Model, Television personality
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"I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships."

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James Augustine Philosopher
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"Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the guys are doing well now. It takes a lot of pressure off Dee and especially myself. Luther and Deron and all the assists and rebounds and all the points that were lost, somebody has to make them up. In reality, you can't do all that."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"Sometimes guys'll say to you, 'Have a good one'. I say, 'I already have a good one. Now I'm looking for a longer one'."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Guy

"It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, "No, thanks," and turn my head away."

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