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John Oliver Comedian
People

"I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things."

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Jonathan Adler Designer
People

"People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters."

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Jordan Peele Filmmaker, Actor
People

"A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second."

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Jose Saramago Writer
People

"The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice."

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Joyce Banda Politician
People

"Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out of poverty... that happened by encouraging entrepreneurship, by supporting small business."

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"Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms."

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John Green Author, YouTuber
People

"In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable."

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Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Businesswoman, Entrepreneur
People

"I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women."

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Homer Hickam Author, Engineer
People

"Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid."

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Matt Smith Actor
People

"At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion."

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Meir Kahane Politician
People

"There is no greater anti-Semite that the Jewish one, and none hates the Jewish people more than the Jewish traitor and apostate."

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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
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"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."

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