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"I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be."

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Homer Hickam Author, Engineer
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"There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop."

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Maya Lin Architect, Artist
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"Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid."

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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
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"The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell."

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Michael J Cohen Photographer
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"Our incredible bewilderment (wilderness separation) blinds us from seeing that our many personal and global problems primarily result from our assault of and separation from the natural creation process within and around us. Our estrangement from nature leaves us wanting,and when we want there is never enough. Our insatiable wanting is called greed. It is a major source of our destructive dependencies and violence."

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Mike Lee Filmmaker
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"I want to be one that is willing to do things that are not easy but that need to be done."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either."

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Milan Kundera Writer
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"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone."

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Milan Kundera Writer
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"For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words."

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Miles Davis Musician
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"Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know."

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Kurt Cobain Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me."

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