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“People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.”
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“Don't give up. Don't ever give up.”
Source : Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993
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“Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority”
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“Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.”
Source : "Illinois Death Row Emptied". www.washingtonpost.com. January 12, 2003.
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“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”
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“But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.”
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“Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?”