"I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation."
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"When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life."
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"Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive."
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"If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!"
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"If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'"
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"The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition."
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"When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart."
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"I'm determined, and I'm passionate and driven about whatever I commit myself to do. If I don't know something, I'm going to ask, and I've got no problems in asking questions. I never have. People ask me, "Are you nervous when you go on the runway? You don't look it." Yes, I am."
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"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others."
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"He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon."
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"If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people."
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"I always say to people, "If you share my dream, why don't we walk together?" And that's my only organizing tool."
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"If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes... If the movie doesn't work, the only thing people notice are mistakes."
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"Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."
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"People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point."
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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"Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people."
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"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better."
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"We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group."
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"There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends."
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