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"Whoever I hang out with, I want to be able to laugh with. I just want to be able to have a good time... And they have to like my dog. If they don't like my dog, they're out."

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Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter
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"I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life."

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Stella Adler Actress, Director
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"Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
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"You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead."

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Zig Ziglar Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them."

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Oscar Peterson Jazz Pianist
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"I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
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"I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world."

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Larry Holmes Boxer
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"George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed."

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Indira Gandhi Politician
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"I want to state that there will be friendship between Bangladesh and ourselves. And not a one-sided friendship, of course - no one does anything for nothing; each has something to give and something to take."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it."

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