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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
People

"I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
People

"If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work"

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People

"Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action"

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Zendaya Actress, Singer, Model
People

"A, surround yourself by positive people who will help you reach your goal and support you. And B, go for it!"

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Kara Walker Artist
People

"I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill"

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
People

"There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion."

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Ibtihaj Muhammad Fencer, Athlete
People

"There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it's important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
People

"God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal."

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Jack Nicholson Actor, Filmmaker
People

"Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's this, it's that. Ask any saloon owner what's happened to social life in America in the past 12 years and they'll tell you it's a different world and these people are strongly misinformed by the media, peer pressure."

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Groucho Marx Actor, Comedian, Writer
People

"Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere."

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Glenn Miller Musician, Band Leader
People

"We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people."

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Lin Yutang Writer
People

"So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day."

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