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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Spiritual

“It's God's love manifest in this world through everything that's in this world, and all the people in the world.”

George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Thoughtful

“Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.”

George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Lonely

“One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.”

George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Calm

“While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.”

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Funny

“That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.”

George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Melancholic

“Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.”

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George Harrison Musician, Singer-songwriter
Creative

“The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.”

George Jung Drug Dealer, Author
Angry

“Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you."”

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Courageous

“Frankly, I do not like the idea of conversations to define the term "unconditional surrender."The German people can have dinned into their ears what I said in my Christmas Eve speech--in effect, that we have no thought of destroying the German people and that we want them to live through the generations like other European peoples on condition, of course, that they get rid of their present philosophy of conquest.”

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Marie Lu Author
Courageous

“Few people ever kill for the right reasons, June. Most do it for the wrong reasons. I just hope you never have to be in either category.”

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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
Confident

“I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did.”

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Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
Confident

“People respect you because they feel you've survived hard times and endured, and although you've become famous, you haven't become phony.”

Marilyn Monroe Actress, Model
Angry

“The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.”

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Lennox Lewis Professional Boxer
Creative

“Different fights bring out different things. I consider myself a seasoned professional. I have done things in the gym that have not come out yet. People would be amazed if they saw me train.”

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Happy

“People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.”

Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Courageous

“The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves.”

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Courageous

“To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.”

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Inspired

“It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.”

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
Courageous

“Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.”