"People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it."
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"It's incredibly important that if you have the dream of having your own house, you don't pretend to be something you're not. Ultimately, it's unsustainable and people will see through. You have to work; you can't expect your dreams to be handed to you on a plate."
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"As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves."
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"You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself."
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"Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest."
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"In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated."
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"My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation."
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"Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache."
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"There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity."
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"Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!"
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"When you're an actor, you're a slave to other people's visions."
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"I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten."
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"People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too."
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"There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers."
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"I can only be the best version of myself and understand that the only way that we as a people can heal is to understand that the next person's journey may not be your own, but it doesn't mean that you have to marginalize them in any way."
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"One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing."
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"Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are."
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"Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still."
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"I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder."
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"When people see some things as good, other things become bad."
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