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Lamar Odom Basketball Player
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"If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!"

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J. Stalin Political Leader
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"History shows that when any state intends to make war against another state, even not adjacent, it begins to seek for frontiers across which it can reach the frontiers of the state it wants to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds such frontiers."

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Ice T Rapper, Actor
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"You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie."

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Zoë Heller Author, Journalist
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"It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it."

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Zora Neale Hurston Novelist, Anthropologist
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"I don't know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. . . I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
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"I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
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"I expect the hip-hop audience to be avant garde. I want them to be where I'm at or beyond where I'm at."

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