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#1. I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

Yann Martel

#2. Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283

Sonia Sotomayor

#3. We can schedule for it. Thursday, April 3rd, 3:05 ... start something. We can train for it, plan for it, announce it, and even hire for it. If initiating is as essential to the modern organization as it appears, we better be doing all of that and more.

Seth Godin

#4. People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

Audrey Tautou

#5. I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three commitment is about Tibet. My retirement is the third commitment. The previous two commitments, to my death, I have committed.

Dalai Lama

#6. It's a little daunting to know you're going to take off your clothes and 16 million people are going to see it. It's not a normal day at the office.

Laurie Holden

#7. Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller