"If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards."
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"I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity."
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"I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence."
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"I want people to feel good about listening to this [Delta Machine] record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical about it."
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"If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with."
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"People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will."
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"Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated."
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"I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time."
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"I love people and entertaining. The fact I can still do it, and it's with my wife is phenomenal. I wanna reach 95 years!"
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"Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella."
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"Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it.""
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"Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect."
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"Whoever has God truly as a companion, is with him in all places, both on the streets, and among people, as well as in church, or in the desert or in a monastic cell...Why is this so? It is so because such a person possesses God alone, keeping their gaze fixed upon God, and thus all things become God for him or her. Such people be a God in all their deeds and in all the places they go, and it is God alone who is the author of all their deeds."
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"I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people."
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"Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives."
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"Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up."
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"There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money."
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"Maybe there's even anger. But if they make it through that they come to a new agreement, and they start creating a new culture, and it becomes something that people just - a lot of times they'll say, "I couldn't live without it. I just have to be there.""
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"Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that."
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"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
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