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50 Cent
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ABBA
John Adams
Christina Aguilera
Louisa May Alcott
Muhammad Ali
Maya Angelou
The Animals
Aqua
Archimedes
Louis Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
Assorted Movie Character
Assorted Philosophers
Assorted TV Character
Augustine of Hippo
Jane Austen
B
The B-52's
The Beatles
The Bee Gees
Lou Bega
Pat Benatar
Lloyd Bentsen
Beyoncé
Bible Writers
Elizabeth Bishop
William Blake
Ray Bradbury
Libba Bray
Emily Brontë
James Brown
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Anthony Burgess
Robert Burns
Lord Byron
C
Julius Caesar
Albert Camus
Blu Cantrell
Truman Capote
Lewis Carroll
Johnny Cash
Neville Chamberlain
Coco Chanel
Ray Charles
Winston Churchill
Bill Clinton
Coldplay
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Alice Cooper
Elvis Costello
Stephen Crane
E.E. Cummings
Christopher Paul Curtis
D
Def Leppard
René Descartes
Devo
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
John Donne
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Drifters
Bob Dylan
E
Albert Einstein
Dwight Eisenhower
T.S. Eliot
Missy Elliot
Ralph Ellison
The Eurythmics
F
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Roberta Flack
Jonathan Safran Foer
John Fogerty
Gerald Ford
Henry Ford
Anne Frank
Aretha Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost
G
Galileo Galilei
Mahatma Gandhi
Marvin Gaye
Gloria Gaynor
Allen Ginsberg
Gladys Knight and the Pips
William Golding
William Goldman
John Green
Che Guevara
Woody Guthrie
H
Nathan Hale
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Seamus Heaney
Martin Heidegger
Joseph Heller
Ernest Hemingway
Don Henley
Patrick Henry
Heraclitus
Historical Figures
Thomas Hobbes
Khaled Hosseini
Langston Hughes
David Hume
Zora Neale Hurston
Aldous Huxley
I
Billy Idol
Igor
Incubus
John Irving
J
Michael Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Jesus
Joan of Arc
Billy Joel
Elton John
John Paul Jones
Journey
James Joyce
K
Immanuel Kant
Helen Keller
John F. Kennedy
Jack Kerouac
Kesha
Soren Kierkegaard
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rodney King
Rudyard Kipling
Stanley Kunitz
L
Madeleine L'Engle
Lady Gaga
Vicki Lawrence
Harper Lee
John Lennon
Jerry Lee Lewis
Abraham Lincoln
Little Eva
John Locke
Vince Lombardi
Lois Lowry
Lynyrd Syknyrd
M
Archibald MacLeish
Niccoló Machiavelli
Madonna
Malcolm X
Nelson Mandela
Bob Marley
Maroon 5
Karl Marx
Mary Shelley
John Mayer
Paul McCartney
Don McLean
Herman Melville
John Stuart Mill
Arthur Miller
John Milton
Kylie Minogue
The Miracles
Joni Mitchell
Margaret Mitchell
Toni Morrison
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Vladimir Nabokov
Sir Isaac Newton
Olivia Newton-John
Nirvana
Richard Nixon
Kenny Nolan
O
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Roy Orbison
George Orwell
Outkast
Wilfred Owen
P
Dolly Parton
The Penguins
Carl Perkins
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
Katy Perry
Wilson Pickett
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
William Prescott
Elvis Presley
Princess Leia
Protagoras
Q
Queen
R
Bonnie Raitt
Ayn Rand
Ronald Reagan
Paul Revere
The Righteous Brothers
Rihanna
Rocky Balboa
The Rolling Stones
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
J.K. Rowling
RuPaul
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
J.D. Salinger
George Santayana
Jean-Paul Sartre
Maurice Sendak
Seneca
Dr. Seuss
William Tecumseh Sherman
Simon and Garfunkel
Frank Sinatra
Socrates
Sonny and Cher
Britney Spears
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Josef Stalin
Edwin Starr
Gwen Stefani
John Steinbeck
Rod Stewart
The Sugarhill Gang
The Supremes
Taylor Swift
T
TLC
James Taylor
The Temptations
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Margaret Thatcher
Ernest Lawrence Thayer
They Might Be Giants
Dylan Thomas
Timbuk 3
The Tokens
J.R.R. Tolkien
Leo Tolstoy
Tina Turner
Mark Twain
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U2
V
Van Morrison
Ronnie Van Zandt
Virgil
Kurt Vonnegut
W
Andy Warhol
Weezer
Joseph Welch
Walt Whitman
Elie Wiesel
Oscar Wilde
Tennessee Williams
William Carlos Williams
Jackie Wilson
Amy Winehouse
Bill Withers
Stevie Wonder
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth
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William Butler Yeats
Ylvis
Yoda
Z
Mao Zedong