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Lil B Rapper
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"I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy."

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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
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"...it's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that into being a CEO, now you know what the artist wants. That's kinda how I did it."

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Jamie Oliver Chef, Author, Television Personality
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"I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge."

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
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"I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals."

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
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"You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"If you want to have more, you have to become more."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'"

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John Ruskin Art Critic, Writer
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"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."

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Hill Harper Actor, Author
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"Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
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"I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance."

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Martin S. Schwartz Scientist
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"When I became a winner, I said, 'I figured it out, but if I'm wrong, I'm getting the hell out, because I want to save my money and go on to the next trade.'"

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