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John Lennon Musician, Activist
Vulnerable

“It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.”

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John Richard Green Historian
Philosophical

“Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."”

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John Shaw Billings Physician
Motivated

“There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and it gets done somehow. There would be no coral islands if the first bug sat down and began to wonder how the job was to be done.”

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John Shirley Author, Screenwriter
Compassionate

“I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.”

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John Shirley Author, Screenwriter
Grateful

“People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.”

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
Grateful

“Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.”

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
Angry

“A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.”

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John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
Philosophical

“When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.”

John Stuart Mill Philosopher, Political Economist
Philosophical

“Every one is degraded, whether aware of it or not, when other people, without consulting him, take upon themselves unlimited power to regulate his destiny.”

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John Wayne Actor, Director
Funny

“Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.”

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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer
Love

“I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.”

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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer
Funny

“The only responsibility I feel is to deliver something that's new or at least to attempt that. The real responsibility is to entertain and to try and make people laugh.”

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Jordan Belfort Stockbroker
Optimistic

“Some people say that it's so hard with the Internet, but I know for a fact that the Internet has made it easier for someone to establish themselves. There's so much you can do online. If you know how to use it right, the web serves as the great equalizer for someone that's just getting into business.”

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Jorge Garcia Actor
Funny

“Thing is, just the title alone will get some people interested: everyone has heard of Alcatraz, and they know that really bad people were there. Bad people are intriguing.”

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Jose Antonio Vargas Journalist, Activist
Philosophical

“If I could, I'd go city by city, county by county, town by town, and talk to people to explain to them what immigration is really about - that this is not about me, this is not about us, this is not about us taking something from you. This is not about us being a threat to you. This is not about Democrat or Republican, and this is not really about border security. But in some ways our politics, and in many ways our politicians, have gotten in the way.”