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Andrew Weil Author
Grateful

“Following an anti-inflammato ry diet can help counteract the chronic inflammation that is a root cause of many serious diseases, including those that become more frequent as people age. It is a way of selecting and preparing foods based on science that can help people achieve and maintain optimum health over their lifetime.”

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Andrew Young Civil Rights Leader
Philosophical

“To find people who don't want anything is rare.”

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Andy Bell Singer, Musician
Funny

“As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure.”

Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Funny

“You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.”

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Funny

“(You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.”

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Philosophical

“Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic.”

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Love

“What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.”

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Nostalgic

“I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.”

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
Creative

“I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better painting or a worse painting.... Besides even when the subject is different, people want the same painting.”

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Ang Lee Director, Producer
Spiritual

“It was nerve-wracking [to unleash 'Life of Pi' to the world]. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious. So really, after the show you went to - the premiere - that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.”

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Angus Stone Musician
Funny

“Vegemite is pretty good if you've got the right spread of butter and you spread your Vegemite light. Sometimes people spread it too thick and it's not the right consistency for it to be what it is.”

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Ann Wilson Singer, Songwriter
Creative

“People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.”

Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Lonely

“There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated.”

Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Melancholic

“These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.”

Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Spiritual

“I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.”

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Love

“I think that is why we stay close to our families, no matter how neurotic the members, how deeply annoying or dull- because when people have seen you at your worst, you don’t have to put on the mask as much.”

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Lonely

“Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.”

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Curious

“What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”

Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Melancholic

“What if you wake up some day, and you're 65... and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?”

AM Courageous

“It takes courage to say, "I need help" and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.”

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