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My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

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Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting. ↗

— Paul Rand

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I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions. ↗

— James Randi

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You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. ↗

— Jeannette Rankin

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At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals. ↗

— Andrew Rannells

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I love doing both theater and television. ↗

— Andrew Rannells

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But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

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Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents. ↗

— Anthony Rapp

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When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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