Live as a Creator
Some of the most successful creative and innovative minds of all time.

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William Shakespeare     
April 23rd, 1564 - April 23rd, 1616

Writer of English plays, sonnets and poetry. His work consisted of 38 plays, 154 sonnest, and poems including 2 narrative poems. 

Quote: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on."

Link to Shakespeare site

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Leonardo da Vinci    
April 15th, 1452 - May 2,1519

Italian multi facited artist and creator. Inventor, painter, musician, architect, mathematician, sculptor, engineer. 

Quote: "Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

Link to Da Vinci site

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Thomas Edison    
February 11th, 1847 - October 18, 1931

American inventor who is known for inventing the lightbulb, the motion picture camera, and the phonograph among other things. 

Quote: "What you are will show in what you do."

Link to Edison site

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Napoleon Bonaparte    
August 15th, 1769 - May 5, 1821

French military and political leader, self-crowned Emperor of France. His campaigns were the foundations of modern day Europe. 

Quote: " I have only one counsel for you - be master."

Link to Napoleon site

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Frank Gehry        
February 28, 1929  -  now

Canadian-American Architect, include the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain and The Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, The Dancing House, Prague, Highly creative buildings and projects. 

Quote: "Architecture should speak of it's time and place, but yearn for timelessness." 
Link to Gehry site

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Albert Einstein              
March 14th, 1879 – April 18th, 1955

German scientist, mathematician and intellectual. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. 

Quote: "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
Link to Einstein site

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Issac Newton      
December 25th, 1642 – March 20th. 1726

English mathematician, physicist and natural philosopher. Newton is one of the most influential people of all time.

Quote: "To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."

Link to Newton site

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Winston Churchill      
November 30th, 1874 – January 24th, 1965

English politician, war time leader, writer, historian. Known or his leadership during World War 2. He was also a creative orator, a British Army Officer and he held major cabinet positions in various British Governments.   

Quote: "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
Link to Churchill site

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Rumi         
September 30th, 1207 – December 17th. 1273

Persian poet, Sufi mystic. 

Quote: "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

Link to Rumi site.

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Charles Darwin     
February 12th, 1809 – April 19th, 1882

English naturalist who's discoveries and ideas on evolution were published as "On the Origin of the Species."

Quote: "It is not the strongest of the species, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Link to Darwin site

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Karl Marx     
May 5th, 1818 – March 14th, 1883

Prussian/German Philosopher, social scientist, historian, revolutionary. One of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century. 

Quote: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is to change it."  


Link to Marx site

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Ludwig van Beethoven  
December 17th, 1770 - March 26th, 1827

German composer of major orchestral works, including symphonies and choral works. 

Quote: "Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of women."

Link to Beethoven site

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The Beatles    
1960s

Four Englishmen who became one of the most successful recording groups of all time. John Lennon and Paul McCartney's partnership in song writing propelled The Beatles across many generations. 

Quote: "Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
Link to Beatles site

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Frederico Fellini   
January 20th, 1920 - October 31, 1993

Italian Film Director, is considered an influential film maker who blended fantasy with reality to produce films that touched the soul.  

Quote: Experience is what you get while looking for something else."
Link to Fellini site

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Vaslav Nijinsky    
March 12th, 1890 - April 8, 1950

Russian ballet dancer and choreographer, one of the world's most celebrated dancers of all time. 

Quote: "People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown."

Link to Nijinsky site

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Salvador Dali    
May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989

Spanish surrealist painter and artist, best known for some highly creative yet, bizarre images. Highly skilled and expertly painted works of art. 

Quote: "The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
Link to Dal site

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Walt Disney       
December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966

American entertainment icon and producer. Disney became one of the most successful, creative, innovative and popular producers in the history of modern cinema. 


Quote: "I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things."

Link to Disney site

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René Descartes     
March 31, 1596 – February 11 1650

French philosopher and scientist. Descartes has been dubbed the "Father of Modern Philosophy" and most modern philosophers have hinged their views in response to Descartes.

Quote: "I think; therefore I am."

Link to Descartes site

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Leonard Cohen       
September 21st, 1934 - Now

Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. He is noted for his literary accomplishments, for the richness of his song lyrics, and for producing an output of work of high artistic quality over a five-decade career. 

Quote: "Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long stem rose. Everybody knows."
Link to Cohen site.

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Mahatma Gandhi   
October 2nd, 1869 – January 30th, 1948

Indian politician and spiritual leader. Honored in India as the "Father of the Nation."

Quote: "Be the change you want to see in the world."

Link to Gandhi site

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Michelangelo     
March 6th, 1475 – February 18th, 1564

Italian renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer. Know for his exquisit detail in every art he mastered.

Quote: "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

Link to Michelangelo site

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Annie Leibovitz 
October 2, 1949 – now

American photographer who has captured some of the most enduring images of our time. 

Quote: "If it makes you cry, it goes in the show."

Link to Leibovitz site

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Susan B. Anthony     
February 15th, 1820 – March 13th, 1906

American civil and women's rights activist and suffragist. Played a major roll in women getting the right to vote. A creator of possibilities.

Quote: "Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done."
Link to Anthony site

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Irving Berlin
May 11th, 1888 – September 22, 1989

American composer of songs, shows and Hollywood films. He wrote hundreds of songs and is considered one of the best song writers in history. 

Quote:"Talent is only a starting point."

Link to Berlin site

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Fred Astaire
May 10th, 1899 – June 22, 1987

American dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. Made his name on Broadway and Hollywood. His debonair way and dancing prowess was admired throughout the world. 

Quote: "This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable."
Link to Astaire site

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Richard Wagner
May 22nd, 1813 - February 13th, 1883

German composer, creator of musical theatre. Noted for compositions including: The Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen),  and many more. His musical works elaborated far reaching ideas that today are cinematic and epic for his time. 

Quote: " One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality."

Link to Wagner site

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