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Kevin Allen Musician
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"First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go as a collective community."

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Kevin Allen Musician
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"I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out to create, is vitally important."

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Kevin Allen Musician
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"All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible."

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Kevin Allen Musician
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"My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more."

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Kevin Allen Musician
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"At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong."

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James Rollins Author, Veterinarian
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"Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald."

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James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist
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"It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest."

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James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
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"It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There'll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed."

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
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"I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing."

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