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Tyson Chandler Basketball Player
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"You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you."

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Seth Lloyd Computer Scientist
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"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."

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"She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere."

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Maggie Smith Actress
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"An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be."

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Margaret Thatcher Politician
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"No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent."

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