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Nina Simone Singer, Songwriter, Pianist
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"I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested."

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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
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"I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices."

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Chris Brown Singer, Songwriter, Dancer
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"My first album was me finding myself and my voice, finding how I sing. I was rolling with the punches because everything was new to me."

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
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"I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think."

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Willa Cather Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique."

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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
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"The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"‎There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror"

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you."

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Geddy Lee Musician
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"I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around."

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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
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"You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved.""

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