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"I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself."
"People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it's kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi's you don't go after Levi's. It's not the clothes. It's always the people."
"One of the things about powerful people is they have the ability to make it look easy."
"Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior."
"People who won’t take step number one never take step number two."
"People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons."
"A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could"
"A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got."
"Don't live your life to please other people."
"I can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me."
"If you really believe in yourself and your music that much, you're gonna do your thing, regardless what people say."
"Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do."
"Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth"
"They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own."
"My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know."
"If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters."
"What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves."
"It doesn't matter if you mean to do the right thing - if you only do bad things. You need to learn how to do right things. Doing is what affects people."
"I want to serve. I want to serve the people. I want every girl, every child, to be educated."
"But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent."
