"The only real people are the people who never existed."
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"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."
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"People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude."
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"I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again"."
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"Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people."
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"People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people."
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"My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache."
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"A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear."
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"I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I might have got a little nervous if I was alone for a day or two in a row. I might think, "Where are they?" Now, I just go on doing naturally what I do."
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"Why do I hate people? Who else is there to hate?"
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"Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized."
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"Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck."
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"I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand."
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"I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business."
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"Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?"
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"Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals."
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"Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook."
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"All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to."
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"I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it."
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"What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with an open hand. What do I not teach? Whatever is fascinating to discuss, divides people against each other, but has no bearing on putting an end to sorrow. What do I teach? Only what is necessary to take you to the other shore."
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