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Rodney King Civil Rights Activist
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"I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it."

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Faith Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy."

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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
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"Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course - he dies, I have to listen to it."

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Patti Smith Musician
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"When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep."

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Eliot Lewis Musician
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"Of course you lose track of where you are sometimes, as you finish a show and ride in a tour bus from anywhere from 3 -12 hours and wake up in another city, and check into a hotel. So, I woke up after a few hours, packed all my stuff up and headed for the bus to depart for that day's show. I get to the lobby and our production person looked at me and said, "where are you headed?" - It was a day off!"

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist
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"Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it."

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Dar Williams Singer-songwriter
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"We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong."

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