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Mayer Hawthorne Singer-songwriter, Producer
Hopeful

“I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.”

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Melanie Chisholm Singer, Songwriter
Inspired

“A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.”

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Merlin Mann Writer
Anxious

“My narrative is that I've never known what's coming next-I still don't. I fell down the right set of stairs and have been surrounded by people who have picked me up and said, “Let's try this again.” It's been one anxious block of uncertainty after another.”

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Merlin Mann Writer
Creative

“Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don't understand that it's ultimately still work.”

Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
Thoughtful

“Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.”

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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
Spiritual

“I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.”

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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
Hopeful

“People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.”

Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
Courageous

“America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.”

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Merton Miller Economist
Confident

“Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.”

Sad

“Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.”

Optimistic

“They could never go back to being a uniracial congregation again. It brings excitement. It brings life. It allows them to be able to know people they would never know, to meet people that are outside the congregation they would have never connected with, you know, through the networks that they developed in the congregation.”

Michael Jordan Professional Basketball Player
Confident

“It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.”

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Michael Johnson Athlete
Confident

“I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.”

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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Angry

“When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.”

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Michael Monroe Musician
Grateful

“People didn't love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what's best for it. You don't destroy it.”

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Michael Scott Business Executive
Love

“The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.”

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Philosophical

“People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.”

Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Philosophical

“If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.”

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer
Thoughtful

“If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.”