"I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people."
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"America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded."
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"I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance."
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"I want paint to work as flesh... my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them ... As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."
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"Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?"
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"People who read are people who dream."
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"People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it."
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"Bears need people. People need bears."
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"most people are perfectly afraid of silence"
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"Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority."
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"Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope."
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"Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people."
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"Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also."
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"The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning."
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"Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are."
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"People say that steadiness of mind is an end; no, it is a beginning. I am there; I can explain everything up to that point. Then I struggle to discover what comes after, so this steadiness is not an end, it is the beginning and the instrument."
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"The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people."
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"Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people."
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"Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone."
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"When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available."
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