"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."
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"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
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"You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?"
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"Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in."
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"One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States."
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"To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees."
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"Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up."
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"People always do the right thing for the wrong reason."
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"Different things work for different people. One thing I've realized, though, is that the work that I've done on myself outside of my work as an actress has really allowed me to open up my mind. I think I understand my emotional state and my complexities now in a much clearer way, and I can put them to rest in a way that there's almost a catharsis that happens through the work, where I can do it and then find myself again."
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"Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto"
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"People assumed that I would have everything handed to me, but that couldn't be further from the truth. I was on my own just doing the grind."
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"As a quarterback, I've been the guy that people were yelling for; I've been the guy that's been booed in my own stadium."
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"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves."
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"I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way."
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"People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense."
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"Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!"
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"Time is one of the biggest issues you'll see. People just do not know how to maximize their time. The way in which you execute and utilize time is everything. And most people push up against the threshold of their control."
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"Most people know what to do, but they don't do what they know - because they haven't found their inner drive. Their passion."
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"Most people manage pain by eating, drinking, smoking, distracting themselves, working harder. That's just managing pain, the pain that comes from not feeling fully alive from not growing."
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"Proximity is power. If you can get proximity with people that are the best in the world, things can happen because all of the people they know, the insights they have and the life experience they have. They can save you a decade of time by one insight."
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