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"You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it's already there. You can see it with your own eyes."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say."

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Ann Wilson Singer, Songwriter
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"I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous."

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Nicholas Murray Butler Politician, Educator
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"The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history of philosophy records-of Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
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"To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment."

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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
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"How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting."

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Mike Thompson Politician
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"I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"Our task is not to leave a record of what happened on this date for those who will inherit the Earth; history will take care of that."

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