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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
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"It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me."

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Scott Simon Journalist
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"Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial equality but often cracked down - but did crack down on the press and dissidents and Cuban gays."

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Rene Marie Singer
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"It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger."

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Rene Marie Singer
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"I don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without being vulnerable."

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Richard Thompson Musician
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"People want to be the first with the record, they want to be the first to know which songs are on the record, all that kind of stuff. So I like to just stall them a bit. Personally, I love the idea of an album that's completely new, that no one's heard any free downloads, any pre-record releases, all that kind of stuff, and nothing's been played on the radio. Totally virgin, you know, a sealed record. That's my ideal, but it's very hard to get anybody else to agree to do that."

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist
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"In short, for me - I'm kind of projecting onto you - distraction has become a modus vivendi, a way of life. Rather than complaining, I am recognizing that I couldn't do what I wanted to do because I'm distracted."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies."

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"David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him]."

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