"Friends are people you can talk to... without words when you have to."
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"Most people never listen."
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"I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas."
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"If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are."
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"A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature."
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"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches."
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"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault."
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"The world is run by the people who show up."
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"The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?""
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"If we didn't have any stress, we'd never grow and you'd probably wouldn't test your mettle and you'd probably wouldn't come up with a lot of creative stuff that people come up with by being somewhat on the edge."
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"'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes."
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"Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool."
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"With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt."
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"I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them."
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"The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can't beat the market. As I always say, the iron rule of life is that only 20% of the people can be in the top fifth. That's just the way it is."
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"When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful."
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"People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them."
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"Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort."
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"I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who's doing Rawhide."
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"When you say that [Martin Luther] King was a prophet, you don't say that he predicted anything; you say that he bore witness. He left a committed life so that people would never forget the suffering of people that he was connected to. King was prophetic because he lived a committed life. Now he did critique society, saying you're going to go under if you don't treat your poor right. I mean, that is part of prophetic calling, but it's not predicting anything."
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