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"Most people settle for connection, because love's too scary. They don't want to lose that feeling, that super high is too crushing so they settle for the comfort of connection."
"I will tell you one other thing about money: when you don't have it, it sure as hell affects the quality of people's health, and their relationships. And paper money isn't even real today, right? It's all really ones and zeros in computers today. But at the same time, if you don't have it, it certainly affects the quality of your life."
"Some people's weight loss is impeded by an impaired thyroid. So I think it's worth testing that at your next physical exam. If it's off, sometimes, that can be caused by excess metals, such as mercury or cadmium. A qualified M.D. can help you cleanse your body of those."
"The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in."
"I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people should applaud and celebrate that. Anybody who criticises her is just jealous!"
"I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train."
"That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people."
"What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives"
"...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't."
"People look to me to do things for them, to have answers."
"The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich."
"My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'"
"We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves."
"When I first came in the league, a lot of people were surprised by my knowledge about the history of the game."
"Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth."
"Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever."
"I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger."
"There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people."
"All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning."
"The main human problems often are that we misidentify what will make us happy; and we ask people and things to save us beyond their ability."
