"I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat."
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"Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship."
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"A name is important. It isn't something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. Your name is now people know you. The very mention of your name makes a picture spring to mind, whether it's a picture of clashing fists or a mighty mountain that can't be knocked down. Your name is who you are and how you're known even when you do something great or something dumb."
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"A movement only exists when people are inspired to move, to do something, to make the cause their own."
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"A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people."
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"A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia."
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"Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement."
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"The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees."
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"What I say is join me and be part of the army and find ways that maybe even I haven't thought of I haven't even thought of to help spread this message and inspire people to do what inspires them. That's what I need you to do."
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"The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve."
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"Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them."
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"I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off."
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"The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another."
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"He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!"
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"Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none."
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"At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is "the will of the people" ... but the problem changes only superficially."
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""I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... "But that's not all people laugh at." "Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there." He thought. "I grok when apes learn to laugh, they'll be people.""
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"On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper."
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"I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives."
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"I think what we need is a more welcoming mode from the people who put on a hundred million country-western shows on television. How about a monthly jazz show?"
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