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“If you have a lot of fans, you have a powerful soapbox, but you still have to have something to say when you're on that soapbox if you want to make a real difference.”
Source : "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it - and I do and always have - then there is nothing we do that is without meaning and nothing that we suffer that does not hold the seed of creation in it.”
Source : May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr
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“Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.”
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“Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live with - and it lasts a lifetime.”
Source : Simen Agdestein (2013). “How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games”, p.57, New In Chess
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“For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.”
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“Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.”
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“Education exposes young people to a broader world, a world full of opportunity and hope.”