"Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing."
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"People were like, "Oh maybe we can change your teeth" and I thought that was going a bit far. You have to be really strong in this job and realise that you are your own boss and if someone tells you to do something, you don't have to do it. I really like my teeth."
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"There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it."
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"Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes."
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"People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?"
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"Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people."
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""I’m not Catholic, I’m not Orthodox…" and I wouldn’t even say Rastafarian, that still divides people, I don’t want to divide people so anything that I say is something that must be so big and great that it did encompass everyone and it’s love."
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"The way you see people is the way you treat them."
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"Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it."
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"People always say 'Motivation is great but it doesn't last.' I just tell them, bathing does not last either, that is why I recommend it daily."
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"As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others."
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"How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people."
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"Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!"
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"The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people."
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"Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love."
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"She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see."
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"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."
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"What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny."
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"When you do your best, people notice."
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"I've talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation...I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire."
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