"To be loved, you have to be nice to people, everyday. But to be hated, you don't have to do squat!"
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"I think if you were known for playing something other than being a nice guy then people might be a little less likely to take liberties with you. If you are Ray Winstone, and people have seen you kick a few people to death, then they are a little less likely to approach you or whatever."
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"Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I’m immensely proud of. I’m delighted."
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"England never felt claustrophobic for me at all. I think it would feel more difficult for me if I lived in mainland Europe. America I think is really easy because Los Angeles has film stars everywhere and musicians and Santa Barbara a lot of people have homes there even if they don't live there. You are kind of inconsequential, no one cares."
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"All I can do is just do what I can do and not be hampered by knowing that some people won't like it."
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"When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence."
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"Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different."
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"There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people."
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"Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive."
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"The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing, who would ever have been spared?"
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"If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself."
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"Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God."
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"The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away with the brother of talk after dinner."
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"The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own."
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"A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in."
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"I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable."
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"My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. And through me - to a lot of people."
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"I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things."
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"I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to."
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"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."
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