"What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it."
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"People are going to start realizing, why take those antibiotics that are extracts of mushrooms? Why not just have the mushrooms?"
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"The young people today are really so creative and talented - I mean, the ones who are really are and they get together and produce and create. They're an entirely different breed from what I was when I was their age."
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"Don't let negative people determine your self-worth."
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"The Mexican people I know seem to respect the country in a way that many spoiled brats who were born here don't. So come on over folks, the more the merrier. But please, sign the guest book on the way in."
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"If your program has a great leader, you'll get great things. If you don't have a great leader and people aren't on the same page, you have a lot of different people doing a lot of different things. That's where trouble starts."
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"There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable."
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"People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful."
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"Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us."
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"We get dopamine in the brain when we like something a lot. Well, cellphones stimulate dopamine, too. So it really is the case that there are some people who are pretty addicted to these devices."
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"Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that."
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"I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person."
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"People who eat white bread have no dreams."
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"When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile, he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home.""
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"I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger."
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"I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves."
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"I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people."
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"It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears."
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"When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards."
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"I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you."
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