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"A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate."
"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
"In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want."
"I like the idea of helping people help people."
"I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false."
"Education could be a great vehicle for gender equity. It allows people to see what your rights are by reading. Quite often women, for example, may have rights that they are not in the position to actually make use of."
"I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art."
"There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail."
"But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise."
"My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know."
"People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom."
"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows."
"There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness."
"I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance."
"Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear."
"Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive."
"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
"While extremely sensitive as to the slightest approach to slander, you must also guard against an extreme into which some people fall, who, in their desire to speak evil of no one, actually uphold and speak well of vice."
"I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way."
"It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys..."
