"Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first."
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"Life hands us a lot of hard choices, and other people can help us more than we might realize. We often think we should make important decisions using just our own internal resources. What are the pros and cons? What does my gut tell me? But often we have friends and family who know us in ways we don't know ourselves."
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"I love when people get songs wrong. I love when people take something from a song that's totally not what I intended!"
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"The only thing that's a little tricky about it is sometimes people assume that if it's a new song, it's a reflection of what you're feeling or going through now."
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"Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind."
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"People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding."
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"This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger."
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"When people are really suffering, and we know they're suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy."
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"I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place."
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"People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'"
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"But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. it's quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't choose, and one always ends up by loving."
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"I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire."
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"If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?"
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"I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis."
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"I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad."
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"Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull."
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"The only people are those who don't love anybody."
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"Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities."
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"Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got."
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"If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority."
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