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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Funny

“People who ask "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice, did ya there buddy?”

George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Angry

“People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know.”

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Angry

“There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.”

George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Philosophical

“We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.”

George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Angry

“I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had.”

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Funny

“I think everybody should be able to do anything they want and let roving bands of people punish each other for things they don't agree with. People with no underwear doing anything they want. Wouldn't that be fun? You wouldn't need television.”

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Spiritual

“It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.”

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Frank Oz Puppeteer, Actor, Director
Creative

“I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.”

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Nicolas Cage Actor, Producer
Inspired

“One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.”

Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
Sad

“The world of education is like an island where people cut off from the world are prepared for life by exclusion from it.”

JD
James D. Watson Molecular Biologist, Geneticist
Angry

“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.”

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GK Determined

“When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.”

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Frank Warren Author
Creative

“Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.”

Courageous

“I am particularly interested in the indications that the people seem to understand and approve the necessity of pursuing the course that will prevent a further effort on the part of the German peoples to continue the struggle for world domination, even though they are thoroughly beaten in this war.”

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Franklin Foer Author, Journalist
Wise

“Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin. And people discuss it in a way that makes it seem so impersonal. But globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.”

Marie Forleo Entrepreneur, Author
Grateful

“Nothing brings me more joy than seeing other people's dreams come true.”

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Mariel Hemingway Actress, Author
Hopeful

“But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.”

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Mariel Hemingway Actress, Author
Creative

“The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.”

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Mariela Castro Politician
Hopeful

“Cuba is a poor country. Most of the Cubans who leave only do so if they can find better economic conditions elsewhere. That's why we need changes. We have to offer incentives to keep people here. We have to create more attractive policies for young people, so that it also makes economic sense for them to stay. We need growth and a better quality of life for everyone.”