"Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle."
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"It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry."
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"War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations."
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"People work better when they are afforded to be themselves"
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"People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently."
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"Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger."
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"Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others."
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"If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."
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"He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet."
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"Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people."
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"People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live."
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"We embrace policies that have, first and foremost, the continued survival of the British people at their core, and in that respect I think we are beyond left and right."
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"The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down."
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"Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history."
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"Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired."
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"I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people."
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"Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing."
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"That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be."
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"Ad campaigns are necessary for competition. But good PR educates people; that's all it is."
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"Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence, we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are."
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