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“I knew very early that somehow I would sing and draw and paint my whole life.”
Source : "Tony Bennett: The musician and the artist". www.today.com. September 23, 2007. 
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“This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.”
Source : Daniel Topolski, Patrick Robinson (2013). “True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny”, p.32, Random House
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“When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.”
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“If you don't have solid beliefs, you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.”
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“Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.”
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“Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.”
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“The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.”
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“I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.”
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“Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief.”
