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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"If you want to have more, you must become more."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."

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Martin Luther Theologian
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"God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God."

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Matt Smith Actor
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"If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it can start your day, there is the warmth and the ritual, and you can share it; you make someone a cup of tea and you offer it to them."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery."

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May Sarton Poet
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"I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply."

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Maya Lin Architect, Artist
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"I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with."

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Michael Jordan Professional Basketball Player
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"I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad"

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Miles Davis Musician
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"You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from."

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Montel Williams Television Host
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"The president has the right to select who he wants for the Supreme Court. He doesn't have to get it cleared from Congress, Senate or anybody... No president before this has come under this kind of scrutiny ... before the committee hearings even begin."

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