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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
Motivated

“I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.”

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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
Melancholic

“I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.”

Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist
Courageous

“You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.”

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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
Funny

“When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.”

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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
Regretful

“There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.”

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Trey Parker Animator, Writer, Director
Hopeful

“Before the church responded, a lot of people would ask us, 'Are you afraid of what the church would say?' And Trey and I were like, 'They're going to be cool.' And they were like, 'No, they're not. There are going to be protests.' And we were like, 'Nope, they're going to be cool.' We weren't that surprised by the church's response. We had faith in them.”

Tony Parker Professional Basketball Player
Motivated

“If we go to the conference finals and people say we had a bad season, I'll take that.”

Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Lonely

“Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.”

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Spiritual

“I don't do the things other people call "play."”

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Spiritual

“I'm losing the definition now of politics. I sort of don't know what that is anymore. People say politically correct, I don't know what that means. I know what they think they mean.”

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Lonely

“She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.”

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Spiritual

“I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.”

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Vulnerable

“I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.”

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Toni Morrison Novelist, Essayist
Hopeful

“Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.”

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
Funny

“I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.”

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
Creative

“Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.”

Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor
Creative

“There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music.”

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