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Jim Shaw Artist, Painter
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"One thing I noticed over time is that if I got a bad review, usually the bad part of it was at the very end. I could tell that nobody read the whole review because they would just say, "It was great to see the review!" In a way, my brain shuts down at the end of an article. It doesn't really want to go to the end."

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Marshall McLuhan Philosopher, Media Theorist
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"I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world."

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May Sarton Poet
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"over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about?"

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Maya Tiwari Author, Spiritual Teacher
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"Before we understand how not to hurt, we must contribute to the peacefulness of it all, in that if we participate in any way, in anything that hurts, anything that involves killing and hurting, then we're hurting ourselves because we're not islands, we're all connected regardless of tradition, and because of that we're all connected."

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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
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"I say to myself, 'I don't know how to act - and why does anybody want to look at me on-screen anymore?' ... Lots of actors feel that way. What gives you strength is also your weakness - your raging insecurity."

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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
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"The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of thought there is a path, a lane - maybe very narrow - which is the path of the historian of thought."

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Mike Tyson Professional Boxer
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"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should."

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Mike Wallace Journalist
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"It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy."

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Muhammad Yunus Social Entrepreneur
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"It's very difficult when you have learned something a certain way. Not only your mind absorbs it; your eyes also are trained to see in a certain way because eyes are only as good as you've been trained to see."

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Mike Ruiz Photographer, Director, Actor
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"I tend to roll with the punches so if things don't go exactly as planned, I always perceive it as the universe making things the way they should be."

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