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Richard Bach Author
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"Everything you've said, everything you want to believe is already true. You may not find some of it for a while, and some of it might take longer than that, but that doesn't stop it from being true this minute!"

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value."

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"It'll be impossible to protect Brittany for the rest of her life from all the other guys who want to be near her, to see her as I've seen her. Touch her as I've touch her. Man, I never want to let her go."

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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
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"I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money."

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Sofia Coppola Filmmaker
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"I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming."

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
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"An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair."

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Robert Henri Artist
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"You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you."

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