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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Philosophical

“The people listening very closely to what the Muslims have always declared. They'll find that in every declaration there's the fact that, the same as, as Moses told Pharaoh, "You're doomed if you don't do so and so," or as Daniel told, I think it was Balthazar or Nebuchadnezzar, "You are doomed if you don't do so and so."”

Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Courageous

“Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.”

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Courageous

“Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly.”

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Larry Ellison Businessman
Confident

“It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good."”

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Larry Holmes Boxer
Confident

“Tyson is a lot better than I thought, a lot better. People can talk about Spinks all they want... Tyson is the true champion.”

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Larry King Television Host
Creative

“I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.”

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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
Angry

“I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.”

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
Philosophical

“The difference between psychiatrists and other mentally disturbed people is something like the relationship between concave and convex madness.”

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
Philosophical

“News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.”

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Indira Gandhi Politician
Motivated

“You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.”

Indira Gandhi Politician
Wise

“[Visiting Richard Nixon] useful only to me. The experience taught me that when people do something against you, that something always turns out in your favor.”

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Indira Gandhi Politician
Courageous

“We couldn't keep ten million refugees on our soil; we couldn't tolerate such an unstable situation for who knows how long. That influx of refugees wouldn't have stopped - on the contrary. It would have gone on and on and on, until there would have been an explosion. We were no longer able to control the arrival of those people, in our own interest we had to stop it! That's what I said to Mr.[Richard] Nixon, to all the other leaders I visited in an attempt to avert the war.”

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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
Courageous

“Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.”

Ingmar Bergman Film Director, Screenwriter
Philosophical

“People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer.”

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Hanoi Hannah Radio Broadcaster
Spiritual

“Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.”

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Gary Allan Country Music Singer
Angry

“Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!”