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" I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. "
Henry Rollins
Stone
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" I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on. "
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" Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind. "
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" Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. "
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" We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like. "
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" It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point. "
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" I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' "
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" Let each man exercise the art he knows. "
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" Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. "
John Wayne
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" The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short. "
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" There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. "
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" The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives. "
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" Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration. "
Jamie Johnson
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" We know what we are, but know not what we may be. "
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" Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. "
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" I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break. "
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" I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I actually find Daniel very inspirational, especially on the physical side of things. He really inspired me to get back into shape when I started to add on a few pounds. I think he's a great role model. "
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" To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage. "
Henry Rollins
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Down
" A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel. "
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Will
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" A champion is someone who gets up when he can't. "
Jack Dempsey
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" I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else. "
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" Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. "
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" It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation. "
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" I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work. "
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" I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day. "
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" Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this. "
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" It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. "
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" It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they are a force to be reckoned with. It's empowering, and it's inspirational as well, because you're just like, 'This is great!' "
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" 'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want. "
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" The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free. "
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