"I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people."
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"I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life."
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"I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them."
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"Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are."
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"I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy."
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"We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us."
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"People are icebergs. So much of us is underneath."
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"It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves."
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"Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time."
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"Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic."
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"People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them."
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"We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup."
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"And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money."
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"We as women put ourselves in this situation of feeling like we can’t take a risk, like in order to step out there we have to be perfect, because we’re scared that if we don’t say the right thing, or do the right thing, that we’ll reflect poorly on ourselves and our community, whether that community be women, people of color, both."
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"Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!"
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"The people say what they like and then I do what I like"
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"Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one."
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"People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made."
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"I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of Pop, people were tireless in taking him down, accepting as truth every accusation people made against him, assuming the worst until they drove him away. When he died, suddenly he was beloved again - people realized that the charges against him might really have been bogus, and that the skin lightening was really caused by a disease, and that his weirdness was part of his artistry. But when he was alive and on top, they couldn't wait to bring him down."
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"I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love"
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