"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."
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"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all."
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones."
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"I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like."
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"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
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"A penny saved is a penny earned."
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"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
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"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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"It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it."
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"Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate."
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"I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring."
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"One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented."
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
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"People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things."
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"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
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"Today there are people trying take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen."
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love"
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"Love yourself first and everything falls into line."
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