“Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough.”
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“It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative and not just in terms of politics - how if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes. Sometimes the opposite can happen, but it's usually the other way around.”
“I worked at a local country club that I never belonged to. I did random tasks in the pro shop and supposed to be in charge of the register, but that didn't go so well. They quickly realized I was better with people, not computers.”
“It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.”
“The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.”
“Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way - not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.”
“We [Facebook] really believe in enabling people to be their authentic selves on the web, and enabling people to communicate directly with each other in a very personal way.”
“Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.”
“When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.”
“I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.”
“I'm good. Or maybe people just like me.”
“I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.”
“People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.”
“There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank.”
“I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.”
“For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.”
“When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.”
“Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and created a lower minimum wage for tipped workers than for everybody else, reinforcing the industry’s”
“People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.”
“all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.”