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"I always feel like I can do anything. That's the main thing people are controlled by: thoughts and perceptions of yourself... If you're taught you can't do anything, you won't do anything"
"I don't mind if people look at me like I'm crazy. I'm just being me."
"The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
"The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people"
"I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people."
"People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it."
"Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own."
"I love myself, therefore, I behave in a loving way to all people for I know that that which I give out returns to me multiplied."
"Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk."
"Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment."
"Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but."
"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."
"People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives."
"I want people to be afraid of the women I dress."
"I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and smiles when it's happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin' takes courage."
"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."
"I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it."
"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it."
"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
"Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives."
