"I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important."
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"I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people."
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"It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece."
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"Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority."
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"The only people who put iced tea in Jack Daniel's bottles is the Clash baby!"
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"The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to."
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"Know that people are doing the best they can from their level of awareness. Accept people for who they are and always be ready to forgive."
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"Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets"
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"A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing."
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"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low."
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"What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people."
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"Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures."
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"The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the sermon on the mount. I believe the time has come to gather people together to do this."
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"I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts."
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"To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone."
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"We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections."
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"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system."
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"The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love."
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"Be quick to praise people. People like to praise those who praise them."
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"There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place."
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