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“I don't want to copy the people I admire - I'd rather find out what inspired them and try to find my own way through it.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“In a way, that's really reassuring. I'm not just a very limited person to not have figured it out at this point. But it's also intimidating. Well, how long is it going to take before you can have a good time?”
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“I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.”
Source : Source: www.slate.com
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“Find your own 'sweet spot'. Take your talents and enjoy them, share them, expand them.”
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“Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.”
Source : Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (2010). “The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture”, p.11, Paraclete Press
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“Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.”
Source : FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Feb 18, 2015 
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“Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back the beat so you could dream. A whole generation running with a Fender bass...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?Perhaps I should die. After all, all the great blues singers did die. But life is getting better now.I don't want to die. Do I? - Lou Reed (1965-1968)”
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“We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.”
Source : "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.
