Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence."
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth."
Woody Guthrie
Singer-Songwriter
"It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people"
Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know"
Prince Charles
Royalty
"As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period."
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"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."
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"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
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"We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us"
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"I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me."
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"Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died."
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"I'm a person of my own opinions, that's how I was raised. I speak what I feel... A lot of people feel the same way but they're scared to talk. They're really scared of the truth - they only want half of the truth. I've been living like that - forever in fear - but I know what to say and how to say it now. I ain't scared of myself. Y'all may be scared; I'm not scared."
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"I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice."
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"Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons."
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"One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west."
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"I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me."
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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are"
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"When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime."
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"Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think."
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"As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to 'do what the people want,' instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically."
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"Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people."
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"Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege."
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"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own."
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"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."
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"Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."
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"When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me."
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