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"I think all of us make the mistake of thinking we're going to change people when we get together. But we're not. People are who they are. And people change in their own time."
"Dress like Britney Spears and think like me, and everything will be fine."
"We're very privileged as Americans - it's easy to forget about the rest of the world and to think that your problems are the most important problems. Even poor people in America live better than poor people most everywhere else."
"I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself, I've consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It's always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man - and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning."
"I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices."
"Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler."
"I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating it in my brain from my egotistical neuroses for the most part."
"I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much."
"If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also."
"Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation."
"Do not crave to know the views of others, nor base your intent thereon. To think independently for yourself is a sign of fearlessness."
"I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man, and believing as I do in the theory of reincarnation, I live in the hope that if not in this birth, in some other birth I shall be able to hug all of humanity in friendly embrace."
"We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race."
"I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man."
"I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundaries."
"My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her."
"Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to."
"Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?"
"Do you think you can make the world a better place? I do not think you can. It is already perfect."
"Knowing that we don't know it's humility; thinking that we know what we don't know, is sickness."
