"The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act."
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"Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy."
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"The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."
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"How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public."
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"We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen."
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"No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people."
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"Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty."
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"It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions."
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"Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth."
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"I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care."
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"The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd."
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"Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by the crowd."
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"The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough."
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"Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd."
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"Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart"
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"Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them."
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"There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd."
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"Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy."
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"The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown."
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"Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence."
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