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Carl Lewis Athlete
Confident

“To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.”

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Carl Lewis Athlete
Motivated

“Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.”

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
Creative

“Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'”

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
Calm

“Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.”

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
Wise

“Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.”

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
Happy

“People lie because they don't remember clear what they saw. People lie because they can't help making a story better than it was the way it happened.”

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
Optimistic

“The people will live on.The learning and blundering people will live on.”

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer
Optimistic

“I am the people the mob the crowd the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me?”

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Angry

“It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's an addictive drug, but even if it were, these people are dying, what are we saving them from?”

Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Optimistic

“When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.”

BW Philosophical

“I hold, as an article of faith, that the worth of an organisation can be accurately measured as the reciprocal of how many Hollywood beautiful people it attracts. It has never failed me yet.”

Barton Gellman Journalist
Philosophical

“The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.”

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BS Philosophical

“Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.”

BS Philosophical

“Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.”

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Ada Leverson Author
Thoughtful

“Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.”

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Adam Baldwin Actor
Creative

“I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.”

Adam Cole Professional Wrestler
Creative

“However, the positive, and I mean this, Jay Lethal and Kyle O'Reilly are two of my favorite opponents. I couldn't ask for two guys I'd rather be in a triple threat match with. On top of that, creatively, if we are able to make something that's really exciting for the fans, any time there are more bodies in the ring, you can always create something that's different because there's more than two people in the ring.”

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