"The problem with requiring people to be loud and angry to get things done is that you're now surrounded by people who are loud and angry."
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"People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself."
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"Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead."
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"Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful."
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"Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes."
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"Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle."
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"I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can slow the whole process down. Then, because of my disability, there is more for me in imaginative literature than there is for other people."
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"I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people whose lives, pleasures and virtues would never have been testified to without my having done it. That makes me really glad."
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"So many people bare their midriffs, I don't know why mine is such an issue."
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"Look people. I’m just a tool to get you where you need to go. If you don’t want to go there, that’s on you. But I’m going to do my best to help you get where you want to be. Okay. So when you get mad and I hear you say ‘I love you but I hate you’. Let’s take the hate out. Love me and love yourself because you can dig, and you can go."
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"The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things."
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"I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not."
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"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences."
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"People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even later when I grew up, I was constantly wearing dungarees, wearing guy shirts."
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"People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side."
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"I just worry because I know I say a lot, often. It doesn't bother me, it's more about the people that get affected around me."
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"A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content."
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"One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people."
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"I hate click tracks. A lot of people I know like to use click tracks. Like my son is perfect on the click tracks. It makes me to edgy."
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"I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common."
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