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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"I don't think there's anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go."

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed."

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Orson Welles Director, Actor, Producer
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"Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat."

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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
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"New York city is full of great spaces. The best spaces of the world are here. This is the new Europe, where the settlers came and busted out their ideas and put it down so there's nothing but great space in this great city."

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Napoleon Hill Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction."

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Natalie Portman Actress, Director, Producer
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"While [Domald] Trump chose a running mate, [Mike] Pence, who wrote [a letter to an Indianapolis newspaper] about how women shouldn't work because it's bad for the family. So we're really facing such a stark contrast between the candidates. Not to mention the vulgarity that Trump has been spouting about women for his entire life and continues to throughout his campaign. It's just a different world that we'd be living in [if he won]."

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Maika Monroe Actress
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"I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want."

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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
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"There is nothing more common than critics of journalists accusing them of practicing journalism. It is our function in the world to take things that are complicated and render them in a form that non-experts can follow and make sense of."

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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author
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"When people reflexively write checks to institutions that have billions of dollars in the bank, they are essentially committing a moral crime. Your money could do good in this world and you're choosing instead to waste it. People have to do a better job of that. You've got to find places where your money's going to do some good and direct your dollars towards that institution."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves."

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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world."

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