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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
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"Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?"

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Ang Lee Director, Producer
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"It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects."

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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
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"You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I'm not going to freak out about it. I'm not that bad. I'm certainly not a boy, and it's been a while since I've been a chef."

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Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"The world they live in now is in no way the world the Michelin system was set up to evaluate back in France, which was all about motorists and seeing if it was worth driving an extra 50 miles for a restaurant. It's a silly thing. Why do you want to help a tire company? You don't owe them nothing."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)"

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?"

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