"I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we're a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn't being ironic."
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"London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country."
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"But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors."
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"I want to go to Australia so bad, do comedy there, and see the people there. It's a great country. I have friends that are Australian that have told me all about it. I want to do comedy there."
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"It's weird when people ask me, "Why are you so nice?" It's like, "Because that's just what you should do. You should be kind to people." It seems really basic, but it's amazing how many people forget that."
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"So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important. It's the difference between success and failure."
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"The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return."
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"Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it all."
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"Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener)."
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"If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do."
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"Get moving; the more ground you cover, the more people you see, the more successful you will be."
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"Unlike most actors, I did not have a horrible childhood. Most actors have had miserable childhoods and they go into acting to hide from their real life. I had no problem playing in the woods all day. People just sort of left me alone. I think I'm gonna go back to those woods."
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"Everyone has a right to bear arms. If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who have guns are the bad guys."
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"That's what's provocative to me - that we can victimize people, we can torture and traumatize people with no consciousness that it is a shameful thing to do."
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"The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century."
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"It can be a challenge, but my legacy, at least for the people who came before me, is you don't run from challenges because that's more comfortable and convenient."
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"I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader."
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"How do you react when you think you need people's love? Do you become a slave for their approval?"
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"People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat."
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"Vulnerability is based on mutuality and requires boundaries and trust. It's not oversharing, it's not purging, it's not indiscriminate disclosure, and it's not celebrity-style social media information dumps. Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them."
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