"I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider."
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"One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you."
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"Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35."
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"The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say."
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"Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace."
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"I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care."
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"I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'"
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"What I find really astonishing is how quiet everybody is in my industry. I mean, nobody in the entertainment business except for maybe a handful of people ever speak out about what's going on. Nobody takes a political stance or expresses an opinion."
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"I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you."
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"Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves."
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"Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and real fight against wickedness than retaliation whose very nature is to increase wickedness. It is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest."
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"In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties."
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"I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me."
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"It has seemed to me that most people are generally good, in every race and in every country where I have been."
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"If people are not afraid of dying, why threaten them with death?"
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"The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes."
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"Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold."
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"When they lose their sense of awe, people turn to religion. When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend upon authority. Therefore the Master steps back so that people won't be confused. He teaches without a teaching, so that people will have nothing to learn."
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"Learn from the people. Plan with the people. Begin with what they have. Build on what they know."
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"If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves.""
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