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“I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.”
“One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.”
| John Adams, President (1735) |
| Joe Adcock, Athlete (1927) |
| Robert Caro, Writer (1935) |
| Timothy Findley, Novelist (1930) |
| William Halsey, Soldier (1882) |
| Harry Hamlin, Actor (1951) |
| James Laughlin, Poet (1914) |
| John Abbott, Statesman (1893) |
| Steve Allen, Entertainer (2000) |
| Lillian Gordy Carter, Celebrity (1983) |
| Clifford Geertz, Scientist (2006) |
| Jam Master Jay, Musician (2002) |
| Rose Wilder Lane, Journalist (1968) |