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Births

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• We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.

  David Selby

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• When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it’s in any realm – like Tolkien was able to do – and people are able to enter that world, it’s a special thing.

  David Selby

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  All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

  Bob Dylan

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• China’s history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

  Gary Locke

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• Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

  Mark Twain

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• I’m exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

  Galen Rowell

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• I’m not going to change the world overnight. It’s one person at a time, and hopefully they’re people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

  Gabrielle Union

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• You know, it’s a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

  Burt Ward

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• Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

  Phil Knight

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• We wanted Nike to be the world’s best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don’t end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

  Phil Knight

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  You say you’re not special because the world doesn’t know about you, but that’s an insult to me. I know about you.

  John Green

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• Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

  David Hume

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• I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

  David Hyde Pierce

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• If you’re a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

  David Halberstam

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  All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

  Peter Pan

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  Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

  Hermann Hesse

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• Self-made men often worship their creator.

  Bryant H. McGill

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• Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

  Bryant H. McGill

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• The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

  Bryant H. McGill

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• The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

  Bryant H. McGill

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