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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
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"You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want."

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Golda Meir Politician
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"It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance."

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author
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"There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time."

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Russell Kirk Political Theorist, Author
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"If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you."

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Kendrick Lamar Rapper, Songwriter
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"The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to."

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Kobe Bryant Professional Basketball Player
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"I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you."

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
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"I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits"

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Rene Magritte Surrealist Artist
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"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well."

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Sienna Miller Actress
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"It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written."

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well."

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Elizabeth Warren Politician, Lawyer
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"It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try."

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Ava DuVernay Film Director
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"Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the back, or if they want to actually roll up the sleeves and do a little bit of work so that there can be more of me coming through."

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