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Larry King

Larry King, an American writer, journalist and host of CNN’s Larry King Live, is celebrating his 50th year in broadcasting in 2007. The Emmy Award-winning host of CNN’s highest-rated program, King has been dubbed “the most remarkable talk-show host on TV ever” by TV Guide, “master interviewer,” by Entertainment Tonight, and “master of the mike” by TIME magazine. King has done more than 40,000 interviews throughout his half century in broadcasting.

He has consistently made headlines with such high-profile guests as Tony Blair, George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush, President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, Johnny Carson, Jimmy Carter and Roslyn Carter, Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Gerald Ford and Betty Ford, Jackie Gleason, Mikhail Gorbachev, Billy Graham, Audrey Hepburn, Bob Hope, L. Ron Hubbard, Bobby Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Madonna, Richard Nixon and Pat Nixon, Al Pacino, Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pete Rose, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Martha Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret Thatcher, Oprah Winfrey and Malcolm X. Subjects for his many books include Princess Diana, his own dad, heart disease, communication and prayer.

“Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.”

                      

“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening.”

“It’s joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you’re kind of an easy mark.”

“Most industry analysts will tell you that the news media outlets need to be involved in more and more marketplaces. For what’s its worth, my opinion is that they just need to mellow out.”

                    

“Blah, blah, blah (I’ve always wanted to say that)…”

- Larry King  (1933- )

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Suze Orman

USA Today has called Suze Orman “a force in the world of personal finance” and a “one-woman financial advice powerhouse.”  In books, articles and TV programs she advises on securities including stocks and bonds as well as on mortgages, loans, insurance, credit card debt and financial planning. Orman has won two ‘Daytime Emmy Awards’ for her PBS pledge drive specials. Her books include: The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life and The Money Show for the Young, Fabulous, & Broke.  Her catch phrases are “Self-worth equals net worth,” “People first, then money, then things,” and “Truth creates money. Lies destroy it.” She writes a Q&A advice section in Oprah Winfrey’s popular monthly magazine O, alongside Dr. Phil’s advice section. She also writes a biweekly column on Yahoo’s Finance page.

Host of CNBC’s The Suze Orman Show, she is also a sought after motivational speaker, often appearing alongside such financial giants as Steve Forbes and Donald Trump. Her engaging yet no-nonsense style has made her the most successful single fund-raiser in the history of public television and she has been featured in almost every major publication in the United States.

“In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.”

“A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.”

                  

“If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.”

“If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don’t you think there’s a good chance that your boss’s boss knows what’s going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.”

“It’s better to do nothing with your money than something you don’t understand.”

“Your financial life is like a garden. If you tend a garden carefully, nourishing the flowers, pruning, and weeding, it’s going to be a lot more beautiful than if you just water it half-heartedly now and then.”

- Suze Orman  (1951- )

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Gabriel García Márquez

In over 18 months of constant writing, made possible through generous donations of food and financial help from most everyone in his small Columbian town, Gabriel García Márquez wrote his groundbreaking novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, in 1968. Over 36 million copies have been sold worldwide with translations into over two-dozen languages. He was awarded the1982 Nobel Prize in Literature and 3 other international prizes for his works.  Widely credited with introducing the global public to magical realism, he has secured both significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success.

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez  (1927- )

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The first black woman to be admitted to the Mississippi Bar in 1964, Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and President of the Children’s Defense Fund and has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Prize, and the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom.  Her father, Arthur Wright, required his children to perform community service work as part of their chores and Edelman today works tirelessly for the rights of poor, handicapped, and minority children. Edelman has written a number of books about kids, family and social responsibility, including the bestseller ‘The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours’  (1992).

“If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.”

“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.”

“Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.”

- Marian Wright Edelman  (1939- )

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In recent years Leonardo DiCaprio, an extraordinarily skilled, prolific and commercially successful actor, has focused time and resources on raising awareness for the plight of environmental destruction, and our role in reversing the long-term damage to planet earth.

“Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.”

- Leonardo DiCaprio (1974- )

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Mel Brooks

Mel BrooksOne of the few to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, and a Grammy, Mel Brooks is an American writer, comedian, actor and producer. The American Film Institute has listed three Brooks films, ‘Blazing Saddles’, ‘The Producers’, and ‘Young Frankenstein’, among the funniest of all American films. He recently updated and produced his original 1968 film, ‘The Producers’, on Broadway. Starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, it earned 12 Tony’s. In 2005, he wrote the screenplay for the 2nd movie version based on the Broadway show, which starred Will Ferrell, Uma Thurman, and once again, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick.

“If you can fail between the ages of twenty and thirty, it’s fabulous. Too much early success and the rest of your life becomes a measure of repeating it. If they had praised ‘The Potato Eater’', Van Gogh never would have painted ‘The Starry Night’.”

“Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.”

“He who hesitates is poor.”

“These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.”

- Mel Brooks  (1926-)

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An important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement, Maya Angelou is also an author, actress and playwright. Her autobiography, ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,’ gave her critical and international acclaim. In the late seventies, she became a friend and mentor to Oprah Winfrey.

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”

“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.”

- Maya Angelou (1928- )

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While writing over 60 plays, numerous stories and 5 novels, George Bernard Shaw supported himself as a journalist, writing for various publications as a book, art and music critic. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1924. It is estimated that he wrote over 250,000 letters in his lifetime. He lived to age 94.

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.”

“If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.”

“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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Known for his frugal and unpretentious lifestyle, Warren Buffet was named the second richest person in the world by Forbes magazine.  In 2006, he made a commitment to give away his fortune, 83% of it going to the ‘Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’.

“In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.”

“I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.”

“It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.”

“It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.”

“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”

 - Warren Buffet  (1930- )

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Known as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of 20th century entertainment, Disney was an American film producer, animator and philanthropist.  The Walt Disney Company today has annual revenues of over 30 billion dollars. One of his most famous characters: Mickey Mouse.

“When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artists to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.”

- Walt Disney  (1901-1966)

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Possibly the most influential woman in the world, Oprah Winfrey is host to The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also the most philanthropic African-American of all time. It behooves us to listen to her thoughts and her words.

“You never have to do anything. Don’t know what to do? Do nothing. I wait. And that has been a big lesson: to be willing, to be still with myself, and trust myself and my higher power to help me make the right decision.”

- Oprah Winfrey  (1954- )

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While working towards his PhD in anthropology at UCLA, American author Carlos Castaneda claims to have studied with several Mexican shamans. He wrote a series of popular books describing his training in traditional Mesoamerican shamanism, which have sold over eight million copies in seventeen different languages.

“Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

     “A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.”

 - Carlos Castaneda  (1925-1998)

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Son of celebrated star Kirk Douglas, Academy Award winning actor Michael Douglas is a skilled character actor starring in such movies as ‘Fatal Attraction’, ‘Basic Instinct’, ‘Romancing the Stone’, and ‘Wonder Boys’. He continues to be one of the most sought after film stars currently acting for Hollywood. He stars in the upcoming movie, ‘King of California’.

“A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.”

“There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.”

- Michael Douglas  (1944- )

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Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her movie career includes three Academy Awards and she is ranked fourth in the ‘greatest female actresses of all time’ honors  by the American Film Institute. She is best known for her work opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 film, ‘Casablanca’. Here are three quotes from Bergman.

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”

- Ingrid Bergman  (1915-1982)

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Legendary for his lavish lifestyle, Malcolm Forbes was the publisher of Forbes magazine.  Forbes became an avid motorcyclist later in life and founded the motorcycle club: ‘The Capitalist Tools.'

“When you cease to dream you cease to live.”

- Malcolm Forbes  (1919-1990)

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