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"There's a tendency to attribute magical skills and knowledge to people who've been elevated in some way - appearing on TV, or having an impressive title, or coming from a wealthy family. There's often an assumption that these people possess some rare, mysterious qualities mere mortals lack. What crap."
"In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves."
"Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people."
"Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium."
"Fear is not the natural state of civilized people."
"Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen."
"People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk."
"There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value."
"I really care about where things are going. I care about what people are feeling and I like to ask the question why."
"People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives."
"The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness."
"Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds” and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know."
"Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love."
"A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far."
"The power of intention is the power to manifest, to create, to live a life of unlimited abundance, and to attract into your life the right people at the right moments."
"You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people."
"People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface."
"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing."
"People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water."
"A stockbroker is someone who invests other people's money until it is all gone."
