"If youre gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills."
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"The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories."
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"Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it."
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"Creative people are 50% ego and 50% insecurity."
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"I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In fact, they earn way more than they get."
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"The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world."
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"My expectations of other people, I double them on myself."
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"As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish."
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"No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it."
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"There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room."
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"Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve."
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"I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people…. As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation."
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"People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special."
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"You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you."
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"But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?"
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"Power people are generally threatened by authority people."
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"The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again."
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"We may be little, insignificant servants in the eyes of a world motivated by efficiency, control and success. But when we realize that God has chosen us from all eternity, sent us into the world as the blessed ones, handed us over to suffering, can't we, then, also trust that our little lives will multiply themselves and be able to fulfill the needs of countless people?"
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