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"Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet."
"What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap."
"I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself."
"It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse."
"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
"The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds."
"When people really understand it's do or die [and] if we work hard and pull through, it's going to be a great outcome; people will give it everything they've got."
"I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing."
"People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it."
"Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
"I've always put my own money into my own shows because today, if you want to stay in the business, you have to produce your own product because there is not enough production and enough people that create today so if you wanna work you produce it or you stay home."
"It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted."
"You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept."
"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
"If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at."
"When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty."
"The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom."
"In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union."
"In a world that has lost a sense of sin, one sin remains: Thou shalt not make people feel guilty (except, of course, about making people feel guilty). In other words, the only sin today is to call something a sin."
"Your luck is how you treat people."
