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• I think inevitably over the course of my lifetime there's been an underestimation of the American people, and I believe they are really the ones that give me hope. There's so much of "they don't know this, and they don't know that," and they're always denigrating.

  Lewis Black

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

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• I think the greatest gift actually acting is that I have a true fascination and love for people, and the way they are, and all the choices they made in life and all the different paths they took. I feel like acting gives me an opportunity to dig a little bit into that. That's great because it's eye-opening and it makes you an open person.

  Wes Bentley

  Eye, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a little more goofy than I think people give me credit for. I like to have fun. I like to have a good time. People don't always get to see that.

  J. J. Watt

  Fun, Thinking, People

  Source: mankindunplugged.com

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• I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.

  Kathleen Moore

  Giving Up, Fall, Eye

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• I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!

  Mickey Rourke

  Fall, Careers, Roots

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• I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club...the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Jobs, Giving, Care

  "Cristiano Ronaldo: Watch Real Madrid star walk out of interview". Interview with Andres Oppenheimer, edition.cnn.com. August 4, 2015.

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• I like the distance that Europe gives me. Also if I stayed in America I'd be a full-time politician and have no time for writing, which is why I went to Europe to live in 1961.

  Gore Vidal

  Distance, Writing, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.

  Chiang Kai-shek

  Giving, Fifty, Aviation

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• I had no need of sails to drive me, nor oars nor wheels to push me, nor rails to give me a faster road. Air is what I wanted, that was all. Air surrounds me as water surrounds the submarine boat, and in it my propellers act like the screws of a steamer. That is how I solved the problem of aviation. That is what a balloon will never do, nor will any machine that is lighter than air.

  Jules Verne

  Air, Giving, Water

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• There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside people, like in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The other kind of evil is predestined evil. It falls on you like a stroke of lightning. That's the scary stuff, but, in a way, it's the stuff you don't have to worry about. I gotta worry whether or not I'm getting cavities. I gotta worry about whether cigarettes are giving me cancer. Those are things I can change. Don't give me lightning out of a clear sky. If that hits me I just say, "That's probably the way God meant it to be."

  Stephen King

  Cancer, Fall, Sky

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• America need a significantly changed taxation system. And the one that I've advocated is based on tithing, because I think God is a pretty fair guy. If you give me a tithe, it doesn't matter how much you make. If you've had a bumper crop, you don't owe me triple tithes. And if you've had no crops at all, you don't owe me no tithes. So there must be something inherently fair about it.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, America, Giving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm. Selfishly, it gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Giving, Joy

  "Michelle Obama: Your First Lady (Special Recognition)". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 2, 2009.

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• Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Giving, Sense Of Humor

  "Never Mind the Mullahs". Interview with Vivienne Walt, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2008.

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• When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

  Richard Simmons

  Grateful, Giving, Bed

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. April 25, 2012.

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• When I got the camera on the shoulder, they give me a nickname. They call me 'the tripod' because I'm kind of short and kind of strong. So if I take the camera and I lock myself, you think that you're on a crane.

  Luc Besson

  Strong, Thinking, Giving

  "Sundance Interview: Luc Besson and Rie Rasmussen of Angel-A". Interview, www.firstshowing.net. February 6, 2007.

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• A lot of times when I'm in the gym, I might not have that energy but I realize what I'm doing it for and it gives me the strength to do one more extra rep, to do one more set or to push even harder, and to not let whatever obstacle is in front of me stop me from reaching my goal.

  Dwight Howard

  Giving, Goal, Energy

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. August 5, 2010.

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• People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard." It reminds me I have to keep struggling.

  Assata Shakur

  Struggle, Giving, People

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• I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign a couple of cards for their children. Then I see them on eBay two weeks later. Or the people that write and say, "You is one of my favorite cartoonists. I would like a drawing, please." I guess they encourage inmates to write letters to celebrities. It's like a way to make money by selling autographs or something. Give me a break.

  Mike Royer

  Children, Couple, Writing

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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• If you feel that something's going to affect your body, then it definitely will. I've always found that sex gives me a kind of calm, and I'm much more in control because of it. It's the same for friends of mine who are also top bodybuilders.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sex, Giving, Body

  Interview with Oui Magazine, www.liveleak.com. 1977.

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• Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money.

  Johnny Carson

  Giving, Worry, Important

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Having money gives me the freedom to worry about the things that really matter.

  Johnny Carson

  Giving, Worry, Matter

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• I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.

  Axl Rose

  Healing, Thinking, Giving

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• For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story is a story when people give me the privilege of listening when I'm speaking it out loud.

  Sandra Cisneros

  People, Giving, Listening

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• Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas.

  Marc Jacobs

  Dream, Sky, Ideas

  "Marc Jacobs' new Daisy Dream is here". Interview with Ingeborg Van Lotringen, www.cosmopolitan.co.uk. July 1, 2014.

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• If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Giving, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence”

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