"The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer."
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"There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny."
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"Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you."
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"Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead."
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"It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are."
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"I think people have always loved things that are bigger than life, things that are imaginative."
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"Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success."
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"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."
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"Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe."
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"I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be."
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"People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner."
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"I think that people don't make the most of their lives. So, you know, for me, it seems like it's the beginning of me rattling the cage, of making some people nervous. And people are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I'm a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I'm saying."
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"Half of the people in the world are below average."
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"It's none of your business what people say about you."
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"I hope I will always have the ability to create art and live in a world where I can speak freely, and I can inspire people. I don't know what form that will take."
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"Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it."
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"When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring"
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"Friendship is anything that you get something out of that is very, very important to you. And that's why there are those people who are so close to you that you don't know how you'd live without them. And they are the ones that, even if they do something terrible, you have to keep. Otherwise, you're just going to be lost without them."
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"The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are."
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"Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement."
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