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Stephen King Author
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"One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else."

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Robert Winston Physicist and Science Communicator
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"I was born with my moustache and, no, I've never been tempted to shave it off. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about my face and, like Gilbert and Sullivan's Katisha, my best feature is my left shoulder-blade."

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Robin Sharma Author, Speaker
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"Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'"

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Sun Bu'er Taoist
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"When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty."

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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
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"When you're more focused in getting your message across than you are worrying about how people are viewing you, that's huge."

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Russell Peters Comedian, Actor
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"Do you know what it is sir? Do you know what the Dance Dance Revolution is? It's not an actual revolution, so you don't have to worry about that. It's not like a bunch of Asians are going to knock on your door 'Hey! Start dancing!'"

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Ryan North Cartoonist, Author
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"Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and a feverent if incorrect understanding of design and anatomy."

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Richard Bach Author
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""What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever."

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Okkyung Lee Cellist
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"I also just get so ecstatic hearing and feeling the noise in general and it still makes me giggle inside playing certain sounds. One of the downsides is that in order to produce certain sounds, I'm totally using my arms the wrong way and sometimes that worries me. But then that physical strain puts me in a different state of mind to bring out different dimensions in the music, I suppose."

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her. After several long moments, or it might have been half an hour-or possibly several sunlit days- they broke apart."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world."

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