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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
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"I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
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"The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree."

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Brendan O'Carroll Actor and Writer
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"For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing."

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Ansel Adams Photographer
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"One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket."

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Warren Buffett Investor, Businessman
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"Shares are not mere pieces of paper. They represent part ownership of a business. So, when contemplating an investment, think like a prospective owner."

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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort."

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Tennessee Williams Playwright
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"The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass."

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
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"In another life I would love to be a cosmetic surgeon because it’s architectural. You know, you are trying to figure out where the seams go. Can I do it in one piece like Halston? Can you formaldehyde DNA?"

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Tony Robbins Author, Life Coach
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"The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation."

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Truman Capote Author, Journalist
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"It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them."

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art."

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Russell Brand Comedian, Actor
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"See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest."

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