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When my record company rejected 'Full Moon Fever', I was hurt so bad. I was pretty far along in my career at that point. I'd never had anything rejected; I'd never really even had a comment. So when that happened, it was really just a board to the forehead. But then, finally, I picked myself up.

Tom Petty

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The idea that human beings have taken a few steps closer toward asserting control over the Earth's climate is likely to strike you as a really bad idea.

Jeff Goodell

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Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Yellow looks good with a brown suit, but then, a brown suit never looks good.

Roger Stone

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The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one.

Roberta Smith

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'Silicon Valley' has come to mean the Bay Area, not just down the Peninsula.

Mitch Kapor

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For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

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I took up acting upon the insistence of my filmmaker father, Kasthuri Raja. But I am glad for it: sometimes one identifies one's calling; sometimes it singles one out.

Dhanush

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I react to stress badly. I handle it better these days. But I'm a very straightforward person.

Dawn Steel

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I was at the birth of my two girls.

Clive Owen

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I don't have the same knack for the business end that my old man did. Recruiting people has been tough. I don't envy anyone in that spot, especially some of the great non-WWE promoters like 'Evolves' Gabe Sapolsky, Beyond Wrestling's Drew Cordeiro, or Markus Mac at All Pro Wrestling.

Cody Rhodes

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I wake up around nine, drink a cup of coffee, answer some emails, and ease myself into the day.

Phillipa Soo

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