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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains."

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"You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future."

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Taylor Swift Singer, Songwriter
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"I've never been fascinated by the party lifestyle. Penciling in a night to get wasted is not something I want to do."

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist
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"What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors."

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Ralph Martin Author
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"Whenever people open their hearts to God in some way, the Lord wants to do something good. Even if it just got scheduled randomly for that day, I'm sure [Pope Francis] sees significance in that."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly."

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"We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things."

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