"If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow."
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"It seems like people need to get into the last album until they can tolerate the next one. And then, slowly but surely, by the time the new one's available, they've gotten into the last one and they really love it."
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"Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist."
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"We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?"
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"Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art."
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"The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it."
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"If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist."
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"Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them."
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"The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters."
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"I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia."
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"Old people, with other old people, are not so old."
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"The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you."
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"You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell."
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"Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."
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"I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more."
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"A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything."
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"I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do."
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"The media is something that affects a lot of people, so you're constantly trying to strike a balance between respecting something and not caring about it."
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"Start saving your pennies now. People spend $300 on crazy things all the time, things like handbags. So work all year, scrape the money together, and come to my show. I’m worth it."
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"Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings."
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