"When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody."
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"I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope."
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"NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny."
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"If you can't love two people at once, there's something wrong with you."
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"Going up to Canada is great because I'm not dealing with people carrying their agendas into the room. I'm lucky because 97% of the people who come to the show know who they are dealing with, whether they are on the left or the right, we're sharing the same frustration."
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"Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people."
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"There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse."
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"I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me."
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"If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart."
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"One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people."
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"But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods."
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"Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion."
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"The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity."
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"People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it."
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"There's this thing that publishes pictures of people out and about. So when I go out, I do see pictures of myself. I don't know where those pictures come from - I mean, I don't see the cameras. But I guess I'm just not looking for them."
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"In early 1999, I was watching TV, when I came across a story on Afghanistan. It was a story about the Taliban and the restrictions they were imposing on the Afghan people, most notably women. At some point in the story, there was a casual reference to them having banned the game of kite fighting. This detail struck a personal chord with me, as I had grown up in Kabul flying kite with my friends."
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"They say African Americans. I say black people. I've only been to Africa once. I've been in America all my life!"
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"Donald Trump has been about we, the people. I just wanted to counter that sound bite because that's part of the problem, bad sound bites. He's been about we the people. If he were just about Donald Trump, you wouldn't have had 14 million people voting for him."
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"While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats."
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"One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself"
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