"I'm not advocating violence but I think somebody should shoot Simon Cowell."
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"I don't think I've ever tried to be anything other than a weirdo."
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"The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking."
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"This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit."
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"Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?"
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"As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are completely wrong. We have the problem all over the world."
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"When you go back to your environment and you deal with employees... do you inspire people or do you make them feel fear? Do you make them feel confident or incompetent? I think that distinction really marks the leader."
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"Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information."
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"I think leaving [death] can be as joyous as - probably more joyous than - being born, because being born is very physically uncomfortable for the baby."
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"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."
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"I cannot help thinking that there is something to admire in everyone, even if you do not approve of them."
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"One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. >From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness."
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"Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice."
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"If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks to them, thanks to all you guys. You opened doors that I don't think would have been opened in my lifetime. When white America started paying attention to the blues - it started opening a lot of doors that had been closed to us."
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"Physically, I feel probably as good as I've ever felt. And I've got as much energy as I ever did. But what you feel after eight years - and I think you'd feel this no matter what, but anytime you have a big transition, it gets magnified - is time passes."
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"God bless whoever invented football. It was the English, I think. And what a fantastic idea it was"
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"One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine."
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"Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces."
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"It's no use saying do this, do that, don't do that ... it's very easy when children want something to say no immediately. I think it's quite important not to give an unequivocal answer at once. Much better to think it over. Then, if you eventually say no, I think they really accept it."
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"I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back."
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