"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."
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"People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph."
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"If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that."
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"Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile."
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"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them."
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"A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been."
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"A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind."
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"Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed."
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"Most people aren't anywhere near to realizing their creative potential, in part because they're laboring in environments that impede intrinsic motivation."
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"And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular."
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"Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves."
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"The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done."
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"What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?"
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"Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God."
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"We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it’s not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that are good for human flourishing. But that’s not what sends you to heaven or Hell."
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"Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about."
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"People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots."
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"I don't care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes."
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"How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity."
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"Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it."
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