"When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots."
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"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."
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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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"Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education."
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"It's never a waste of time or money to invest in yourself, no matter the source. True wealth begins inwards and emits its light outward into everything else, including the people you surround yourself with."
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"It's possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people."
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"Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you."
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"God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may."
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"Being a movie star is a quality that somebody sort of embodies, and being a celebrity is something that people give to you. It has to do with being recognizable, as opposed to something that people recognize in you. I just hope to make good movies. I know that sounds simple, but it's true."
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"I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost."
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"I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind."
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"Don't labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives."
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"That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that."
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"It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in."
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"But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?"
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"All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default."
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"In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance."
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"Become one of the rare people who don't know how to quit."
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"We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots."
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"Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free."
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