"All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously."
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"There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims."
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"People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously."
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"People are never perfect, but love can be."
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"If there is any one skill that every professional must learn, it is how to brand himself or herself in the marketplace. A brand provides certainty to customers and lets them know that what they`re getting is the best. People don`t like to make decisions. Once we decide, for example, the kind of toothpaste we prefer, rarely do we change. We have to make so many decisions every day in our lives that most of us are overwhelmed."
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"Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary."
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"The past doesn't equal the future. All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life, know the power of continuously pursuing their vision, even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available"
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"[There is] the need to feel unique, special, important or needed. Everybody has those needs, including the people that say I don't need to be special."
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"The best way to stay away from They is really simple. Stay with the people who have some passion. Stay with the people who know the truth. I like to find the They and turn them into We. I like to take the Theys and herd them. People that are skeptical, the Theys, I can bring them to We as much as I can."
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"We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well."
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"When people succeed they party, when people fail they ponder."
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"Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves."
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"To help other people, you've got to be able to help yourself. You go to a psychiatrist, and they're on this Prozac, Effexor, and antidepressants, you may have picked the wrong person. If you go to somebody who's broke who's selling you financial services, that might not be a good thing. You go to somebody who's fat to help you lose weight... And a lot of people ironically do these types of things."
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"I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia."
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"I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA."
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"People are really hesitant about expressing that they don't know something - but what's the big deal? I'm not ashamed about that at all."
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"Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot of doors for black people."
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"My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that."
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"There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have."
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"I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people."
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