"You saw the traumas that people lived through, and wondered what it will take to move us as a human community, as humanity, to help in these dangerous situations."
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"Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either."
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"When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis."
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"I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited."
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"I was accepted by cool people because the cheerleaders thought I was cute. The jocks knew the jock-girls thought I was cute. I just chose not to hang around with them."
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"The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around."
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"I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people."
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"Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better."
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"There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life."
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"My best relationship is the one I have with myself. I know I am always connected to a Universe that loves me. I draw loving people and loving experiences to me."
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"If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that."
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"Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people."
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"The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter."
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"The secret of many of my deformations - which many people do not understand - is that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in toward the attracting point and form is altered."
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"I hate it when people pilfer my things."
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"The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous."
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"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."
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"When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language."
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"One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease."
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"The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories."
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