"Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality."
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"Life works best when we think of people as people."
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"I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party."
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"As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows."
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"I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind."
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"Paolo Maldini is someone I loved at AC Milan and looked up to as a player. I think he had so much about him. He had so much quality and he was a player I looked to growing up. Him and Tony Adams - another footballer who's won it all."
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"I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about."
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"I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen."
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"I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct."
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"I remember the first thing I did when I found out I was illegal was to get rid of my thick Filipino accent. I figured that I had to talk white and talk black at the same time, like Charlie Rose and Dr. Dre. If I can talk white and black then no one is ever going to think that I'm "illegal.""
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"Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women."
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"He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows."
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"If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future."
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"If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them."
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"I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn another language, to travel."
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"What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder."
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"I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that."
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"There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
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"... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
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"You just have to say, 'It’s pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I’m OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'"
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