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"People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration."
"I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business."
"People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody."
"Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."
"In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people."
"For the most part, biophiliacs,lovers of life, are found among simple people, without pretensions."
"I think if you ask people what their concept of heaven is, they would say, if they are honest, that it is a big department store, with new things every week - all the money to buy them, and maybe a little more than the neighbours."
"I believe that the vast majority of people that are unfaithful are monogamous in their beliefs. The ones who are not monogamous in their beliefs either live in poly relationships or consensual non-monogamous relationships, or they have divorced. If it's very bad, then people don't stay married these days in the West. They can be married and have their family, but they want something else - they want something that they don't have in their lives, or simply to be someone that isn't who they are in the context of their marriage."
"I sing the songs that people need to hear."
"Be independent of the good opinion of other people."
"People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child."
"One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others."
"Being wealthy is often a powerful predictor that people spend less time doing pleasurable things and more time doing compulsory things and feeling stressed."
"People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted."
"If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable."
"When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring."
"I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next."
"The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing."
"I'm cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally."
"Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance."
