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The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson. Commencement speech. Commencement cermony. 26 May 2011, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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I just got out of a five-and-a-half year relationship so I'm not looking for anything serious, just sexual activity.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

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Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Directed by Nick Stoller, Apatow Productions, 2008.

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There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt.

Ray Bradbury

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Bradbury, Ray. "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203." Interviewed by Sam Weller. Paris Review, Spring 2010.

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In no way, shape, or form do I feel any feelings of intimacy towards you in any way whatsoever.

Step Brothers

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Step Brothers. Directed by Adam McKay, Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media/The Apatow Company/Mosaic Media Group/Gary Sanchez Productions, 2008.

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It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 57.

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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in The New York Times. 8 Jan. 2001.

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Dare them to censor you.

Ken Loach

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Loach, Ken. "'Dare Them to Censor You': Ken Loach Talks Art and Activism in I, Daniel Blake and Beyond." Interviewed by Alissa Wilkinson. Vox, 2017.

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Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and serious.

Legally Blonde

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Legally Blonde. Directed by Robert Luketic, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Marc Platt Productions, 2001.

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The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives freshwater, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the water out. It receives beautiful water from the rivers, and the water goes dank. I mean, it just goes bad. And that's why it is the Dead Sea. It receives and does not give. In the end, generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.

Desmond Tutu

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Tutu, Desmond and Tenzin Gyatso and Dalai Lama XIV. The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World. Cornerstone Publishers, 2016.

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You know you don't want to go anywhere, and that's why the same shit is going to keep happening to you, because you want it to.

Inside Llewyn Davis

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Inside Llewyn Davis. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, StudioCanal/Anton Capital Entertainment/Scott Rudin Productions/Mike Zoss Productions, 2013.

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I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come into my life somehow and he didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does.

No Country for Old Men

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No Country for Old Men. Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Scott Rudin Productions/Mike Zoss Productions, 2007.

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Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Chris McCandless

Into the Wild

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Into the Wild. Directed by Sean Penn, Paramount Vantage/River Road Entertainment/Square One C.I.H./Linson Film, 2007.

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Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Remark at meeting about September 11th attacks. 11 Sept. 2001, Washington, DC, USA.

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I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong.

Chris McCandless

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Into the Wild. Directed by Sean Penn, Paramount Vantage/River Road Entertainment/Square One C.I.H./Linson Film, 2007.

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Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 15.

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If everything is under control, you're not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

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Andretti, Mario. Quoted in "Mario Andretti: A Glass Half Full for the Indy 500 and Formula One Champion." Written by Elisa Henry. Success Magazine, 29 Dec. 2009.

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Celibacy is a lot less complicated than romantic relationships.

The Priest

Fleabag

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"Episode #2.3." Fleabag, written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, directed by Harry Bradbeer, season 2, episode 3, Amazon Studios and British Broadcasting Corporation, 2019.

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