"How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living."
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"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same."
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"People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for instance you—you're one in a million. You're happy—"
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"Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means."
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"Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change."
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"Two percent of the people think; three percent think they think, and 95 percent would rather die than think."
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"I know that I've been put on this Earth to make people happy, to inspire people, and to uplift people. That's a beautiful thing."
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"Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?"
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"I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove."
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"Our true nationality is mankind."
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"For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces."
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"No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress."
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"Revolt is the right of the people"
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"It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it."
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"Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world."
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"I knew that the moment the great governing spirit strikes the blow to divide all humanity into just two opposing factions, I would be on the side of the common people."
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"When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen."
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"There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans."
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"I don't like to use the words "real women," honestly. I like to use the word woman. And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin, or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people. At the end of the day we just all want to be known as women or models or actresses or whatever."
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"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
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