"Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be."
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"I think what I've learned from working on "Moonlight" is we see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves."
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"For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested."
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"The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be."
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"I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves."
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"The great Way is very straight, but people prefer to deviate."
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"As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion."
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"Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws."
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"I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings."
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"The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power."
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"People think I'll kill you if you make a joke. I compare it to Clint Eastwood. I've only seen Clint Eastwood in movies. You think if you make a joke to Eastwood, he might shoot you."
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"I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff."
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"The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about."
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"Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans."
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"People are always shocked to hear I'm an athlete by profession and even more shocked when they hear I'm a fencer from the United States. I challenge the stereotype that Muslim women are oppressed and that a Muslim can be American by birth. It's amazing how many assumptions people make, but I embrace the opportunity to use this Olympic platform to educate."
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"If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it."
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"We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on."
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"We believe in the almighty and we believe in God and that music is from God and we're inspired by God to give messages and ideas to people."
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"Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years."
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"People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest."
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