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Chris Rock Comedian, Actor, Writer
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"Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
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"What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem."

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Bruno Heller Writer, Producer
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"You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
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"...it is not what one has experienced but what one does with what one has experienced that matters."

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Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Physician
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"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems."

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would do too."

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Amy Pascal Film Producer
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"I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second."

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William Goldman Screenwriter, Novelist
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"I understand everything,” he said. “You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see me, just as I’m glad to see you because no more loneliness.” “That’s what I mean,” said Fezzik."

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