"The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own."
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"One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent."
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"While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism."
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"For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community."
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"Wasn't that a wonderful thing that I had a chance to work with more great actors, big stars, than just about anyone in the history of Hollywood? And some days I didn't know with whom I'd be standing face-to-face, and I was so impressed because they were all really wonderful people. And when you work with Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, George Sanders as Mr. Freeze, it's a wonderful experience."
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"The most beautiful people are all in the library."
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"At the end of the day, it's hard to win against the NFL. It's a billion-dollar business, it's hard to win against it. They can manipulate a lot of different things. They can pull strings, they know people. At the end of the day, nine times out of 10, they are going to win."
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"I don't really feel famous. I'm just an internet guy. I walk down the street and people don't really mess with me too much. I still have my life."
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"The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome."
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"It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves."
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"Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself."
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"The doors of the world are opened to people who can read."
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"But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture."
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"What is best for people is what they do for themselves."
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"The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary."
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"I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people."
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"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."
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"Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own."
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"People learn from people they love."
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"Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people."
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