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Katie Stelmanis Singer-songwriter
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"I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music."

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak and act freely and confidently with the knowledge that the same Spirit that inspired Jesus is inspiring us."

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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
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"I pretend no originality in observing that mass education was motivated in part by the perceived need to "educate them to keep them from our throats," to borrow Ralph Waldo Emerson's parody of elite fears that inspired early advocates of public mass education."

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Maya Banks Author
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"He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope."

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Mayer Hawthorne Singer-songwriter, Producer
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"Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop fashion. Over the years, I kept the hip-hop sensibility, but make it my own."

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