"When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit."
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"I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade."
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"The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all."
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"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either."
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"The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go; they don't understand the meaning of "to transcend" the intellect."
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"People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change."
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"I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust."
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"And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people."
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"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government."
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"Now, I simply won’t let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about"
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"No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers."
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"My Range Rover is great for LA. You can take surfboards on it and stick some bikes in the back. And if you kidnap people you could tie them up in the back, there's space for your chloroform."
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"I always have a curious sort of feeling about some of my things - I hate to show them - I am perfectly inconsistent about it - I am afraid people won't understand - and I hope they won't - and am afraid they will."
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"So eager are our people to obliterate the present."
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"See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence."
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"Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in desperation. They come to the border, and we put them in trucks and send them back to Mexico to die. And here people are scared of illegal immigrants - that's what we're doing. It's pretty shocking."
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"I think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover."
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"Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those."
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"Color don't tell if people Black. It's the soul."
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"Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving."
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