"When I try to sound like the contemporary sound, it never turns out that way."
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"The one who tries to get something for nothing generally winds up getting nothing for something."
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"Here is an old Oriental proverb: *A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.* It is difficult to anticipate just how a situation will develop in every detail until you take a step forward and try out your present equipment. Then, if weaknesses appear, you will have clues as to how to strengthen your resources. No scheme or plan is perfect. Perfection is a process, not an end."
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"I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff."
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"I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them."
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"I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger."
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"I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing»."
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"I'm trying to transform behaviors and ideas that have never been challenged in certain ways in my life. I'm not the kid that I was at 19."
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"That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else."
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"I'm someone who can provide an intellectual framework, but I can't tell people who are trying to sell Product X how to do that because I don't know, and I would be faking it if I attempted to step into that role."
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"I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion."
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"If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain."
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"All you have to do is go back to slavery - days, and there were two types of slaves, the house slave and the field slave. The house slave was the one who believed in the master, who had confidence in the master and usually was very friendly with the master. And usually he was also used by the master to try and keep the other slaves pacified."
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"The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house."
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"I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions."
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"There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal."
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"Is Virgin you trying to fathom me"
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"I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded."
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"For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences."
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"The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful."
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