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Jonathan Davis Musician
Creative

“Videos? Videos are important because millions of people watch TV and we can only tour and play so many places. But if you've got a video, then you're able to air it and millions and millions of people will see it.”

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
Peaceful

“People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.”

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John Green Author, YouTuber
Inspired

“That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.”

John Green Author, YouTuber
Angry

“The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.”

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John Green Author, YouTuber
Philosophical

“It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.”

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John Adams Founding Father, Politician
Courageous

“We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.”

Joan Didion Author, Essayist
Melancholic

“In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. There was a period, a long period, dating from my childhood until quite recently, when I thought I did. A period during which I believed that I could keep people fully present, keep them with me, by preserving their mementos, their "things," their totems.”

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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
Funny

“People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.”

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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
Courageous

“Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.”

Joan Didion Author, Essayist
Melancholic

“You have your wonderful memories," people said later, as if memories were solace. Memories are not. Memories are by definition of times past, things gone. Memories are the Westlake uniforms in the closet, the faded and cracked photographs, the invitations to the weddings of the people who are no longer married, the mass cards from the funerals of the people whose faces you no longer remember. Memories are what you no longer want to remember.”

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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
Philosophical

“If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, [...] they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that.”

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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
Grateful

“Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.”

Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
Creative

“The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.”

Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
Grateful

“People forget already how much utility they get out of the Internet - how much utility they get out of e-mail, how much utility they get out of even simple things like brochureware online.”

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