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CR Creative

“I think it's cooler when girls have favorite pieces of clothing rather than an entirely new wardrobe every few months.”

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CS Philosophical

“I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.”

Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Philosophical

“Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.”

Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Creative

“A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.”

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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
Optimistic

“Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.”

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AC
Abbey Curran Beauty Queen
Happy

“I think that the pageant world overall is pretty spectacular, it just makes you feel good about yourself and leaves you with great friends.”

Abbey Lincoln Jazz Singer, Actress
Philosophical

“I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.”

EC
Eddie Campbell Comic Book Artist
Creative

“I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.”

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ED
Eddie Dean Singer, Actor
Inspired

“Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.”

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Barry Hannah Author
Creative

“Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.”

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Sad

“We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it.”

Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Angry

“Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.”

Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Funny

“Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.”

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Edgar Wright Film Director
Creative

“I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, and when you get a film adaptation of that game, you've just Xeroxed something twice. I think that's where a lot of the criticism comes from - there are ultra-violent games that are already based on a million films. But there's definitely beauty and art and design in games. I don't think anybody could deny that.”

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EC Love

“I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those 60s society models, like Edie Sedgwick.”

EC Spiritual

“I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.”

EC Angry

“I think the nerves aspect is a bit of a joke. How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another, most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models too, it wouldn't be the end of the world.”

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Edward de Bono Psychologist
Philosophical

“There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.”