"People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach."
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"If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept."
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"Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do."
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"People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history."
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"There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now."
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"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."
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"I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it."
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"It takes zero politically correct people to screw in a lightbulb because they are perpetually in the dark."
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"I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself."
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"If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves."
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"The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic."
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"I will lead my people out of bondage, Lord."
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"Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs."
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"Why do we put people who are on drugs in jail? They're sick, they're not criminals. Sick people don't get healed in prison. You see? It makes no sense."
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"All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now."
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"Folk music is a bunch of fat people."
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"Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise."
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"Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own."
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"I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies."
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"Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms."
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