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“The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.”
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“To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.”
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“Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.”
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“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
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“But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless:Â I am living. I remember you.”
Source : "What The Living Do". Book by Marie Howe, November 17, 1997.
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“But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“American music culture is black culture.”
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“In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.”
Source : Daniel Crevier (1993). “AI: the tumultuous history of the search for artificial intelligence”, Basic Books (AZ)
