Albert Parsons Quotes
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.
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To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
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The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.
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History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.
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New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.
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L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
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If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'
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I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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I believe it is right when not only me, but also my colleagues - the prime minister, ministers, deputies of the State Duma - when they, like today, for example, participate in two marathons, when they visit football matches, when they themselves take part in sport competitions. That is how, inter alia, millions of people start feeling interest in and love for fitness and sports. I believe it is extremely important.
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Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
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I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.
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Let the voice of the people be heard!
