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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back."

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet
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"And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it constantly in my own life."

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Diana Ross Singer
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"I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education."

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