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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away."

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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
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"How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society."

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Angelina Jolie Actress, Filmmaker, Humanitarian
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"If you have problems, it's something to apologize for, to be embarrassed about, not to revel in. It's the perfectionist in me...That's why people call me the "bossy little thing"-I'm the bossiest person around."

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Ali Banisadr Artist
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"People quickly look through things and don't sit and experience. That's a problem with artwork, [because] it's more of an experience than something to quickly look at. It takes a while for everything to unveil itself."

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer
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"The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty."

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"To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems."

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Walter Smith Artist
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"Virginia and Maryland attorneys argued this is a national problem and needs a national solution. I'm hoping that with a federal court agreeing this is inequitable, Congress will now act and do the right thing for the District."

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Win Butler Musician
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"There's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation."

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