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• Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Hate, Worry, Trying

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• I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

  Susana Martinez

  Children, School, Kids

  RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.

  James McGreevey

  Political, Identity, Campaigns

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• I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

  Robert Morgan

  Encouragement, Ideas, Pay

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• Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

  Jason Mraz

  Jobs, Dad, Choices

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• You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Believe, History

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• I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.

  Chuck Norris

  Motivational, Thinking, Fog

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• America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

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• Well I think a lot of times we're putting things off and I'm going to do it later. I'm going to break this bad habit or I'm going to pursue this dream or I'm going to treat my spouse better.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Thinking, Putting Things Off

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• I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

  Michael Palin

  Blessed, Careers, Two

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• I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

  Anna Paquin

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

  "Anna Paquin's All-Day Energy Secrets". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.foxnews.com. June 03, 2012.

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• We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

  George Pataki

  Dream, Home, People

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• Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

  Natalie Portman

  Passion, Want, Facts

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• 'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.

  Jason Reitman

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  "Jason Reitman Takes Off with Up in the Air". movieweb.com. February 24,2010.

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• The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Interesting, President

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

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• What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Believe, Opportunity

  "Marco Rubio is Top Choice for VP Among GOP Voters in Poll" by Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2012.

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• I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

  Dan Savage

  Passion, Thinking, Live Your Life

  "Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2011.

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• The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Bodybuilding, Bad Ass

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

  Ed Sheeran

  Cds, Dublin, Want

  "Interview with UK Pop Sensation Ed Sheeran". Interview with Marian Tuin, www.axs.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the kind of independent fiscal policies that can strain a joint currency.

  Amity Shlaes

  Country, Independent, Europe

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• Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

  Simon Sinek

  Entrepreneur, Experts, Purpose

  "Two Types of Experts" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

  George A. Smith

  Memories, Passion, Pride

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• Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Management, Behavior, Profit

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• When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.

  Rick Springfield

  Accolades

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• I never felt I had enough personal style to pursue being just a guitarist.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Style, Had Enough, Felt

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