"Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs."
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"He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for."
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"People ask me a lot like, "Hey, so when are you done with your tour?" Like when I die. That's when I'm done with my tour."
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"The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do stuff - It's interesting with comedians because when we walk on stage, oftentimes we're talking about ourselves for an hour and we're talking about very intimate details, so after hearing us for an hour, a lot of people feel very comfortable with us because they feel like they know us and they're our friends because we just told them our innermost secrets and details of our lives for an hour. What they forget is we know absolutely nothing about the audience."
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"The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else."
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"When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!"
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"The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages."
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"If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing."
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"Do one thing at a time. Start the day with a list of things you have to do, and do the most important things first. Even if you don't get the list done, you've gotten the most important things done. So many people spend so much time on things that aren't important."
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"One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential."
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"Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life."
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"Respect is the key determinant of high performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform."
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"Make a decision to be successful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor."
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"Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks."
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"People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it."
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"Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform."
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"The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you."
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"A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place."
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"The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most."
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"You always think in terms of customer benefit. You always think, "How could I really benefit people at such a high level that they would love to buy my product or service and recommend it to others?""
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