"Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor."
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"The poor give us much more than we give them. They're such strong people, living day to day with no food. And they never curse, never complain. We don't have to give them pity or sympathy. We have so much to learn from them."
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"I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience."
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"I want to hold a series of meetings all over the country and get the facts before the American people"
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"The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do."
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"You cant be trapped by other people you can only be trapped by your fear, defy and win!"
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"I can be very stubborn. I'm very opinionated and if people cross me at work - if people who don't know about the job try telling me what to do - I become very stubborn and really rather unpleasant."
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"I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator."
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"I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids."
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"The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth."
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"National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence."
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"In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke."
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"I just owe it to myself, to God and to everybody who supports me and people who don't even know me yet, to just be fully intentional and authentically real with everything I do, say and create."
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"I really got attracted to the idea of touching so many people and that idea of art transcending entertainment and art and activism being synonymous."
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"There's this huge number of desperate people."
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"Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales."
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"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."
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"Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal."
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"I'm a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there's a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I'm just as confused as most people. I don't have the answers for anything."
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"It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place."
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