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Tim Robbins Actor, Director
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"Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle with it you will ruin it. If you try to own it you will lose it"

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives."

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"I think I did have a reputation for being grumpy. I don't think I'm grumpy. I have opinions. I have an independent vision. I am a purposeful person. But on a daily basis, I think I'm other than grumpy. I think it is a case where I am coming to do business and not there just to be flattered and cajoled and used."

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Margaret Beckett Politician
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"Many unsustainable behaviours are locked-in and made 'normal', not just by the way that we produce and consume, but by the absence of easy alternatives"

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves."

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Frank Lloyd Wright Architect
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"It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth."

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Kennedy Political Leader
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"The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world."

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher
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"It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired."

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Freeman Patterson Photographer
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"Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you."

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