"People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases."
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"Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks."
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"I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids."
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"Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls."
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"Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business."
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"It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind."
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"I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals."
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"I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way."
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"Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool."
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"When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, "This is the one!""
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"I think one of the things people don't understand is we can build more shareholder value by lowering product prices than we can by trying to raise margins. It's a more patient approach, but we think it leads to a stronger, healthier company. It also serves customers much, much better."
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"Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books."
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"People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth."
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"People who keep journals have life twice"
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"And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness."
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"Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination."
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"You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time."
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"It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music."
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"When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like."
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"People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were."
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