"Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now."
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"The people who matter will recognize who you are."
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"in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you"
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"I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born."
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"The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive."
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"In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively."
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"It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy."
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"When I say "miracle" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic."
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"Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities."
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"To me pornography is...spending all your money and not educating the people in America, but spending it instead on weapons."
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"I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world."
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"Disneyland. The world's biggest people trap, built by a mouse."
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"People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves."
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"Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter."
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"It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you."
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"People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs."
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"i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here."
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"I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time."
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"That is the most confusing and insane thing to me, when people get offended on behalf of another group."
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"The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful."
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