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"People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with."

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Andy Warhol Artist, Filmmaker
People

"I've always thought that the President could do so much here to help change images. If the President would go into a public bathroom in the Capitol, and have the TV cameras film him cleaning the toilets and saying 'Why not? Somebody's got to do it!' then that would do so much for the morale of the people who do the wonderful job of keeping the toilets clean. I mean, it is a wonderful thing that they're doing."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
People

"I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate. As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are. And if only everybody could realize this! But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun."

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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
People

"India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
People

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

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People

"Every time I start thinking the world is all bad, then I start seeing people out there having a good time on motorcycles. It makes me take another look."

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Rodney King Civil Rights Activist
People

"As far as having peace within myself, the one way I can do that is forgiving the people who have done wrong to me. It causes more stress to build up anger. Peace is more productive."

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People

"I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale."

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Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist
People

"Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you."

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Laozi Philosopher
People

"I am good to people who are good. I am also good to people who are not good. Because Virtue is goodness."

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Katie Piper Television presenter, Author
People

"Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now."

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Keanu Reeves Actor, Producer
People

"I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb."

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