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"Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music."
"We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment."
"Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends."
"Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think."
"The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian."
"Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness."
"I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish."
"Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony"
"The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination."
"What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do."
"When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace."
"My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people."
"I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones."
"The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never argue and strive with people and facts, but in all experience retires upon themselves, and look for the ultimate cause of things in themselves."
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God."
"The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous."
"It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught."
"I don’t want to do a cocktail party. I’d rather people left my shows and vomited."
"I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design."
"Our original title, you know, was `The Man in Lincoln`s Nose`. Couldn`t use it, though. They also wouldn`t let us shoot people on Mount Rushmore. Can`t deface a national monument. And it`s a pity, too, because I had a wonde."
