Vladimir Putin Quotes
It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
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The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
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I stopped caring what people thought.
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I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, I really am a people pleaser. If I throw a party at my house, it's hard for me to relax. I'm too obsessed with whether everyone's having a good time.
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I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.
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I am black in a predominantly white industry, and I have been luckier than most.
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It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
