"Some people say I'm too blunt and I'm too direct, too straightforward. I think we could use some of that in Washington, D.C."
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"It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better."
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"I always encourage people to start in their own personal universe, because sometimes we as parents start thinking about the big picture. How do I change what's happening in my entire school? And how do I do it in my community? And then you get overwhelmed and it's just like, "Forget it, I'll just stay here in my kitchen and wait." But, start small."
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"I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh."
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"The world sucks, people are not true"
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"God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. Its the same in religion."
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"I now go beyond other people's fears and limitations. I create my life."
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"Become genuinely interested in other people."
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"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living."
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"People are often talking when they are not supposed to be."
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"Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that."
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"Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures."
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"The transgender community deserves the dignity and respect that most people take for granted."
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"I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together."
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"Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them."
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"If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers."
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"A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced."
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"If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible."
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"In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO."
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"A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness."
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