"Singing still brings me tremendous joy, the reception you get and you never know what people are going to share with you after the event."
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"I love the donors and we thank them, but it has to be that the guys in the barber shop, the lady at the diner, the folks who are worried about whether that plant is going to close, they've got to be our focus. They've got to be a laser-beam focus on everything we do, and everything we do should animate and empower them at the grassroots level for working people across this country. That's how we come back."
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"I'm an optimistic guy.It's just as much the case that people will come to me and ask my opinion about how to properly include the Muslim community, as it is that people will come with some hateful stuff too. When people come to me about my religion, it's not always a thing of "we don't want people like you here," which happens sometimes. But mostly it's people who would like to know more. I get a chance to help people understand the religion better."
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"Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings."
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"My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people."
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"The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people."
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"A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees."
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"A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them."
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"It is most unwise for people in love to marry."
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"Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices."
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"Professional soldiers are people who die for a living."
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"I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people."
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"Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time."
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"I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down."
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"All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant."
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"Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't."
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"People have material needs, but you don't need a deodorant for every different day of the week. You don't need four hundred varieties of mustard. This is what I call too many choices. There are too many choices in America."
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"When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies."
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"College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em."
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"The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then."
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