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"If one person comes in and says, this is the way life should be, I think you're asking for chaos. I think you gotta let different people live different ways. It's a big world."
"I believe Success is achieved by ordinary people with Extraordinary Determination."
"When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to."
"My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish."
"There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special."
"People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide."
"Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go."
"The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks."
"I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive."
"Because the only people for me are the mad ones."
"All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger."
"No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying."
"To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides. If we take sides, it is impossible to do the work of reconciliation. And humans want to take sides. That is why the situation gets worse and worse. Are there people who are still available to both sides? They need not do much. They need do only one thing: Go to one side and tell all about the suffering endured by the other side, and go to the other side and tell all about the suffering endured by this side. This is our chance for peace. But how many of us are able to do that?"
"Almost all Japanese animation is produced with hardly any basis taken from observing real people, you know. It's produced by humans who can't stand looking at other humans. And that's why the industry is full of otaku!"
"People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success."
"Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
"When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy."
"Everybody predicted that Donald Trump was going to lose. And I just think it was the hand of God. I think God intervened and put his hand on Donald Trump for some reason. It's obvious that there was something behind this. And it was more than people understand. And I just think it was God."
"I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people."
"Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman"
