"When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them."
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"People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God."
"To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable."
"There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time."
"I'm about what goes through people's minds. The stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches."
"Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum."
"The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals."
"Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job,and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it."
"This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here."
"A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!"
"When one becomes indifferent to women, to children, and young people., he may know that he is superannuated, and has withdrawn from whatsoever is sweetest and purest in human existence."
"I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something."
"That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that."
"I love being with my children. They're fascinating people."
"The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity."
"It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal."
"People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing."
"It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television."
"Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge."
"In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much."