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Emmitt Smith American Football Player
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"There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do."

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Erma Bombeck Humorist, Writer
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"There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M."

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist
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"Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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"The Universe is abundant with everything that you want. It's not testing you. It's benevolently providing for you. But you are the orchestrater. You are the definer, and you do it through your joyous anticipation. If there is an emotion that you are wanting to foster, that would serve you very, very well, it is positive expectation. It is excited anticipation."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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"Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want."

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Esther Hicks Author, Speaker
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"If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose."

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Eva Green Actress
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"I didn't want to do 'Casino Royale' when they told me to audition. I said no. Then they sent me the script, and I thought it was actually very interesting - and I had no other work at the time."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others."

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