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"My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community."
"It's true, I do like cheering people up."
"I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices."
"Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better. I've always believed this, in spite of the trouble it's caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba."
"People do things for love and belief and passion, not just because they're paid to do it."
"My early childhood was spent living by the Pacific Ocean. I carry with me something imprinted by that wide, limitless horizon, which I learned connected us to different people and cultures, including my own family's origins in the Arab World and Northern Europe. I understood early that my world was only a small part of a much larger one. That captivated me."
"All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art."
"Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art."
"Success in dealing with people depends on sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint."
"People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves."
"People support a world they helped create."
"The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely."
"If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity."
"Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose."
"There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand."
"If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit."
"There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system."
"I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad; I just don't think of it."
"A lot of people believe what other people say."
"If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money."
