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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Hopeful

“I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.”

Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
Funny

“I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.”

Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
Determined

“Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.”

Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
Wise

“I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.”

Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
Spiritual

“People think the film industry is going to corrupt me, but I feel like it's kept me more innocent, in a way. I wasn't really home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always around adults who wouldn't smoke or curse or do anything like that around me. I don't do things that are dangerous to myself. I don't want to hurt myself”

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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
Creative

“If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.”

Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
Love

“Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?”

Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
Philosophical

“There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.”

Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Angry

“When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to learn how to improve himself. Negro leaders resent this being said, not because they don't know that it's true, but they're thinking, they're looking at it personally. They think that the implication is directed even at them, and that they, and they duck this responsibility.”

Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Courageous

“I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.”

Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Regretful

“I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.”

Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Courageous

“The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.”

Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
Courageous

“I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.”

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Larry Ellison Businessman
Determined

“I think you might see us growing much deeper into banking. You might see us acquiring companies in the banking area. You might see us acquiring companies in the retail area. I think you might see us acquiring companies in the telecommunications. I think you will see us getting stronger in business intelligence.”

LK
Larry King Television Host
Regretful

“Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?”

Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
Melancholic

“I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.”

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
Philosophical

“My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.”