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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"You know how I play it, better safe than sorry 'stead of searching for substance at every single party."

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"They say I'm old news. Well who the new star? Cause if I'm goin anywhere it's probably too far."

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"They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"I quit school and it's not because I'm lazy. I'm just not the social type and campus life is crazy."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"We doin it big. Look at what I done. Look at where I'm is. It's only just begun."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"Just call me 'Shoppin Bag Drizzy'. And call me 'Mr Damn, He Aint Coppin That Is He?'"

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"Baby being part of this life I feel like I'm bound to end up with somebody that's been with everybody."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once."

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Anna Kendrick Actress, Singer
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"Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important."

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Upton Sinclair Novelist, Activist
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"They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?"

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Saint Francis de Sales Saint, Bishop
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"Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence."

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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
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"[L]et us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it, provided we humble ourselves for this and redouble our confidence in God."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
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"America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow."

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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"[On George H.W. Bush:] By 1990 I had learned that I had to defer to him in conversation and not to stint the praise. If that was what was necessary to secure Britain's interests and influence, I had no hesitation in eating a little humble pie."

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"Christ was the one washing the leper's feet so he was very, very humble, but it's not the way People are putting it down now. They feel as though God is that up there and they are that down there and they don't realise that they are God and that Christ was exactly the same as us but he realises that he was God."

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Gigi Graham Author
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"Whether your gift is mighty or humble, whether you exercise it in the marketplace or at the podium, in the executive suite or in the schoolroom, in the office or at home, your main task or gift or ministry is to be a light in a dark world."

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