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Curious

“When I first started performing, some people were there just out of curiosity. I think that happens less often then you'd think, but when it is happening it's very obvious and I can tell what's going on. I had some of that in the beginning, but I think that ultimately I got a pretty strong fan base based on just my personality alone, and my honesty, my music. So it wasn't based on anything else, and I did notice if someone else came looking for something else, they'd probably leave, or complain it was too loud or something.”

LS
Lisa Stone Artist
Creative

“It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals.”

Lisi Harrison Author
Thoughtful

“What was it about high school that made people think with their insecurities instead of their brains?”

KM
Kirsten Miller Author, Educator
Funny

“Beau, will you please watch the entrance for us?" "What should I do if I see anyone suspicious?" "Kick a car," Iain said. "Kick a car?" "To set off the alarm." "Gotcha," Beau said. "Good thinking.”

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KM
Kirsten Miller Author, Educator
Regretful

“You in the back," said the principal. "Don't think you can hide. Tell me. What would you like to be?" "Dangerous," said the hidden girl, without a second's hesitation.”

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Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
Courageous

“My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.”

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Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
Melancholic

“It's different from being 21 and you think there's endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.”

Honore de Balzac Novelist
Philosophical

“The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.”

Honore de Balzac Novelist
Funny

“I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.”

Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Thoughtful

“I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.”

Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Regretful

“The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked. We have applied them for decades and it's got the prisons filled with lots of young people who sometimes come out destroyed for having half an ounce... We should approach it through education and health issues rather than a brutal reaction... There is need for change in policy, but it has to start with debate and discussion... I think the whole approach has to be reviewed.”

Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Hopeful

“I think the generational change is going to be so important for Africa that we really should encourage and push it as much as we can, because some of these younger men and women, who are men and women of their times, and are also connected to the rest of the world, wouldn't even know how to behave in the way some of the old leaders do.”

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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Regretful

“It is extreme arrogance for one to think he...and it's usually he, is the only one who can govern his country and nobody else can do it.”

Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Adventurous

“I can't think of a 30- or 40-year-old who can behave like Mugabe. They wouldn't even know where to begin, and given their own educational exposure, I think it will be very positive for Africa.”