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Sienna Miller Actress
Creative

“I once used henna to dye my hair brown for an audition, thinking I was being clever as it's all natural.”

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Ringo Starr Musician, Songwriter
Hopeful

“I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.”

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Ringo Starr Musician, Songwriter
Spiritual

“There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank.”

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Rita Wilson Actress
Creative

“I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.”

Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
Wise

“We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.”

Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
Grateful

“There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear; then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.”

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
Philosophical

“I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.”

Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
Philosophical

“The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.”

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Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher
Spiritual

“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.”

Sofia Coppola Filmmaker
Creative

“I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.”

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Sofia Coppola Filmmaker
Curious

“My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.”

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Robert Downey, Jr. Actor, Producer
Courageous

“I think a hero is someone who, if abroad or traveling, they go to the GOOP website to see what shops to go to, what restaurants to eat at, what clothes to buy, and they do that not fearlessly but in spite of their fear.”

Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
Funny

“To pace about, looking to obtain status, looking to attain 'importance' - I can think of nothing more ridiculous.”

Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
Philosophical

“Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.”