“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams, quoted in the Memphis Daily News
“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.”
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“Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.”
Arthur Miller, quoted in Esquire
“If you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with without denigrating them or insulting them, then you may actually be heard.”
Amy Poehler, quoted in Marie Claire
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Leonardo da Vinci, quoted in Entertainment Weekly
“Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.”
Boris Pasternak, quoted in the Associated Press
“The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?”
Lou Reed, quoted in the Mirror (U.K.)
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