“If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.”
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“Imitate the sun. Don't worry if people understand you. Just shine shine shine.”
“There are practical things which contribute to a joke's funniness. People will find a joke funnier if they are sitting closer together, if it's cold, if they've paid and if they are told it's funny beforehand.”
“The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.”
“The world is governed by personalities very different to what people that cannot see further than their eyes, believe”
“Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.”
“Occasionally I talk with people who see doctors as people who do nothing but give of themselves and never receive from anyone else - especially not from their patients. That is totally false. The longer I remain in my profession, the more I realize how much I receive from those who come to me for help.”
“I'm referring to anybody who is trying to interfere with the process of interfering with what the will of the people are. It is the people who should make the decision. And whoever that decision is, the establishment needs to get behind them and push them, not be going in a different direction, there is no way that can be a successful startegy no matter what you believe or who is the candidate.”
“We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.”
“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”
“All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.”
“What that’s allowed me to do is have a vantage point about my own life that's accessible to people still. I could see a guy walking down the street and be like, Even though I'm famous, I got more in common with this guy than, like, Brad Pitt.”
“I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.”
“Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.”
“I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.”
“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”
“I believe more and more that this business is about people. People, people. The idea is to make friends at the retail level, the warehouse level, let people see you exist, can form sentences and have an interest in something other than yourself.”
“I knew already when I was seven years old, that I wanted to be on stage and entertain people. I sell laughs. Here, you got one for free!”
“The best I can hope for is that I might provoke a water cooler argument between you and somebody else. But it is not journalism. It doesn't have the rigor of journalism. It doesn't have the proof positive that facts provide. So it can be readily dismissed as mere propaganda. But I can certainly reach more people.”
“A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.”