"To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains."
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"My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness."
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"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."
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"Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation."
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"If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other."
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"The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth."
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"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless."
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"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone."
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"When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need."
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"Role is something people play, model is something people make, both of those things are fake."
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"If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do."
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"For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is."
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"You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you."
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"People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another."
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"You don't build a business --you build people-- and then people build the business."
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"All I feel are the assaults of apprehension and terror at the thought that I am the only one who is entirely unlike the rest. It is almost impossible for me to converse with other people. What should I talk about, how should I say it? - I don't know."
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"When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill."
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"I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."
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"Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean."
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"Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound. That may make some folks bristle-but it's a fact. When we refuse to warn people that their actions and lifestyles have eternal consequences, we're not doing them any favors. If everybody feels good about his or her sin, why would anyone repent?"
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