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"There's a certain pleasure of the life of the mind that cannot be denied. There's a certain pleasure about being around people who enact a playfulness when it comes to the world of ideas."
"People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true."
"When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about . . . never underestimate the importance of a kind act."
"You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look."
"I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child."
"Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf."
"The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster."
"Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible."
"The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light."
"People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You're new and you're hot and things go wrong."
"My job is simply to proclaim the Gospel, and to let the Spirit of God apply in the individual hearts. When I give the invitation for people to receive Christ it will be so quiet you can hear a pin drop. And you will see people coming forward deliberately, quietly, reverently, thoughtfully, and many of their lives. . . . will have been transformed and changed in that moment."
"Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have."
"I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it's going to work out. Because even if other people don't like what you're doing, you're happy because you did what you believed in."
"People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?"
"There's no finish line. That's a big pill for people to swallow, Every single day for the rest of your life, you are going to have to make better food choices, and move around a bit more."
"Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down."
"Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect."
"When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all."
"Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives."
"If you want to develop courage, then simply act courageously when it's called for. If you do something over and over again, you develop a habit. Some people develop the habit of courage. Some people develop the habit of non-courage."
